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The Afflicted Girls
Suzy Witten

DREAMWAND
November 2009
On Sale: October 31, 2009
456 pages
ISBN: 0615323138
EAN: 9780615323138
Paperback
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Fiction | Historical

Something terrible happened in Salem in 1692 . . . but it isn't what you think! THE AFFLICTED GIRLS A Novel of Salem by author-researcher Suzy Witten presents a startling new theory of the Salem Village witch-hunts which is certain to put this 300 year old unsettled mystery to rest . . . by expertly guiding readers through The Historical Record to revelation. Part parable, part star-crossed romance, and part supernatural venture, this is an intuitive human history--and inhuman--spun with a modern twist. A controversial debut by a new Historical storyteller. A

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2 comments posted.

Re: The Afflicted Girls

Writer Nan Hawthorne on her blog
"Historical Fiction Roundup": I want to
start the ball rolling by saying that
easily the best new book I read in
2009 was Suzy Witten's "The Afflicted
Girls". It is destined to go down in
literary history as the best novel about
the Salem Witch Trials. Witten captures
not only the psychology of the place
and time but the very sound of it.
(Suzy Witten 3:46am January 10, 2010)

THE AFFLICTED GIRLS wins 2010 IPPY
Silver Medal for Historical Fiction
(
Suzy Witten 1:33pm August 1, 2010)

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