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| The Heretic's Daughter: A Novel | 
 enlarge | Author: Kathleen Kent
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  41 reviews
Sales Rank: 1237
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.2
ISBN: 0316024481
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780316024488
ASIN: 0316024481
Publication Date: September 3, 2008
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Product Description
Martha Carrier was one of the first women to be accused, tried and hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts. Like her mother, young Sarah Carrier is bright and willful, openly challenging the small, brutal world in which they live. Often at odds with one another, mother and daughter are forced to stand together against the escalating hysteria of the trials and the superstitious tyranny that led to the torture and imprisonment of more than 200 people accused of witchcraft. This is the story of Martha's courageous defiance and ultimate death, as told by the daughter who survived.
Kathleen Kent is a tenth generation descendent of Martha Carrier. She paints a haunting portrait, not just of Puritan New England, but also of one family's deep and abiding love in the face of fear and persecution.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 36 more reviews...
 Enthralling!!!!! November 16, 2008
This book had me from page one. The author has the ability to capture your attention and place you directly in the book. In her description early on of a cold wagon ride, I found myself looking for a blanket although I was sitting in my own living room. Vivid details and descriptions of the area, the conditions and the people. Loved it!!! I can't wait for her next book.
 3 and a half would be better November 15, 2008
Don't get me wrong, the historical detail was wonderfully told and the story of the Carrier's was incredible. I just found the book too slow for too long to keep me reading at a steady pace. The last 3rd was by far the best in the novel. I recently had a chance to meet this author and she is quite interesting and it's thrilling to know this is her first novel...only more good to come I suppose.
Nice story November 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It starts a little slow, but keep going. This is one of those stories in which the characters are the most important thing. I had it in an audio book, and was listening while driving. That isn't the best way to go through this story, it deserves a little more attention. However, it was still worth it.
Great Historical Novel November 4, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
We've all read stories of the Salem Witch Trials in history class, but this book is something so special and touching, I not only had a hard time putting it down, but also didn't want it to end. The story is told thru the eyes of 10 year old Sara Carrier, who doesn't like her mother very well and feels that her father is somewhat of a mystery man with strange ways and little to say.
But as the story moves forward, it's a joy to watch Sara learn to admire and understand her mother and to understand her father. Although the dialogue between Sara and both her mother and father is somewhat limited, the words are perfectly spoken and will stay with the reader long after the book has been put away. To watch this love and respect that Sara discovers for her entire family brought me to tears.
I highly recommend this book and look forward to more from this new, great author. Hopefully we can learn more about Sara's father in a future novel? I sure hope so!
Family History Brought to Life... November 3, 2008
I just turned the last page.... Wow.... What a really, really good book!
The Heretic's Daughter is a novel of the Salem Witch Trials. We have all heard of them, but Kathleen Kent has more than heard of them. She is a tenth generation descendant of Martha Carrier, who was hanged for a witch in Salem in 1692. Stories of Martha have been passed down through her mother's family for generations. Kent has taken fact and blended it with fictional license to tell the story of Martha, her husband Thomas and their five children.
The book opens with Martha's daughter Sarah writing a letter to her granddaughter in 1752, finally revealing the secret she has guarded for sixty years. From this letter, we go back and relive Sarah's past.
I'm not going to go into much more plot detail. Kathleen Kent spent five years researching and writing this book. Her attention to detail and descriptions of people, events and attitudes bring this terrible time in history alive on the page. I was moved by the love and fortitude of this family - I was crying my eyes out at the end.
This was such a powerful debut novel. I can't wait to read her second.
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