The Ministers Daughter, Julie Hearn
The Ministers Daughter, Julie Hearn
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The Minister's Daughter

Author: Julie Hearn

Narrator: Heather O'Neill

Unabridged: 8 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/14/2005


Synopsis

Conceived on a May Morning, Nell is claimed by the piskies and faeries as a merrybegot, one of their own. She is a wild child: herb gatherer and healer, spell-weaver and midwife . . . and, some say, a witch.
Grace is everything Nell is not. She is the Puritan minister’s daughter: beautiful and refined, innocent and sweet-natured . . . to those who think they know her. But she is hiding a secret–a secret that will bring everlasting shame to her family should it ever come to light.
A merrybegot and a minister’s daughter–two girls who could not have less in common. Yet their fates collide when Grace and her younger sister, Patience, are suddenly spitting pins, struck with fits, and speaking in fevered tongues. The minister is convinced his daughters are the victims of witchcraft. And all signs point to Nell as the source of the trouble. . . .
Set during the tumultuous era of the English Civil War, The Minister’s Daughter is a spellbinding page-turner–stunning historical fiction that captures the superstition, passion, madness, and magic of a vanished age.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Gary

Set in West England in 1645 during the English Civil War. Nell the granddaughter of a healer, is a merry begot, a child conceived on Beltane's Day in May. she learns the art of healing from her grandmother, frolics in the wilds and communes with the fairies and pixies. Grace Madden, the daughter of d......more

Goodreads review by Jamie

Ah, the Puritans. Such a charming people with such unique solutions to common problems. Young daughter pregnant out of wedlock? Hire an assassin and have a couple of neighbors publicly executed. No one will pay attention to a baby bump after a show like that. Little Nell is being taught as a cunning......more

Goodreads review by Angie

Interesting look at the 17th century witch trials in England. The book does a good job of showing how hysteria can grow and mob mentality can make otherwise sane people turn against those they have known their entire lives. Nell and her grandmother have served and protected the community their entir......more