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The Magpie Tree Katherine Stansfield

The Magpie Tree By Katherine Stansfield

The Magpie Tree by Katherine Stansfield


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Summary

Jamaica Inn, 1844: A boy has vanished on the North Cornish coast, and a reward is offered for his return. Shilly has had enough of such dark doings, but her new companion, Anna Drake, insists they investigate. As Shilly and Anna search, the case takes another turn - murder. Something is stirring in the woods and old sins have come home to roost.

The Magpie Tree Summary

The Magpie Tree by Katherine Stansfield

Jamaica Inn, 1844: the talk is of witches. A boy has vanished in the woods of Trethevy on the North Cornish coast, and a reward is offered for his return. Shilly has had enough of such dark doings, but her new companion, the woman who calls herself Anna Drake, insists they investigate. Anna wants to open a detective agency, and the reward would fund it. They soon learn of a mysterious pair of strangers who have likely taken the boy, and of Saint Nectan who, legend has it, kept safe the people of the woods. As Shilly and Anna seek the missing child, the case takes another turn - murder. Something is stirring in the woods and old sins have come home to roost.

The Magpie Tree Reviews

Stansfield gives a haunting evocation of a place and time when superstition and logic coexisted in uneasy alliance, and challenges the reader to decide which was more real. Publisher's Weekly Stansfield has produced an unsettling read, with atmospheric detail that pulls you in to a landscape of superstition and supernatural goings on... This is an unsettling tale, full of fear and suspense, with two unconventional and independent women at its centre. Created to Read

About Katherine Stansfield

Katherine Stansfield is a novelist and poet whose novels The Visitor and The Magpie Tree have won the Holyer an Gof Fiction Award. She grew up in the wilds of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall and lived on the west coast of Wales for many years.

Additional information

GOR009627971
9780749021719
0749021713
The Magpie Tree by Katherine Stansfield
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Allison & Busby
20180322
288
N/A
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