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Claire-Marie Watson
Winner of Scotland's Biggest Book Prize

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THE CUREWIFE

The Curewife. A Scottish best-seller

A SCOTTISH BEST - SELLER
Now in its third edition

"A story of subtlety and dark intrigue 
told with immense skill"
Hilary Mantel

 

The Curewife

A TALE OF SCOTTISH WITCHCRAFT, MYTH AND LEGEND

In a land of war, plague, political turmoil, and fanatical witch-hunts, Grissel Jaffray, the Curewife, fights to survive.

This compelling story, written as a fictional diary but based on the very few known facts about the life of a real character, subtly embraces major historical figures and events. It vividly depicts the effects on ordinary lives of Bannockburn and Robert the Bruce, in the Wars of Independence, to Cromwell and the execution of Charles the First in the English Civil War. 

Grissel begins her diary upon her arrival in Dundee as an innocent bride, intending to pass the story of her life and the lives of her ancestors to her first-born daughter. Gradually, using other real characters and events, the author develops a powerful narrative. As fear, desperation and overwhelming horrors crowd in upon her, Grissel must use all her blood-line's wisdom to survive. That blood-line is three centuries old.

This book relates the power of the gifts of healing and great intelligence, and demonstrates the blessing and the curse of each and both.

 


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