The Good Wife

<h2><strong>'Eleanor Porter is a major new voice in historical fiction.' Tim Clayton</strong></h2><h2>Where will her loyalty lead her?</h2><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>Once accused of witchcraft Martha Spicer is now free from the shadow of the gallows and lives a safe and happy life with her husband Jacob. But when Jacob heads north to accompany his master he warns Martha to keep her healing gifts a secret to keep herself safe to be a good wife.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>Martha loves Jacob but without him there to protect her she soon comes under the suspicious eye of the wicked Steward Boult who's heard of her talent and forces her to attend to him. If she refuses he promises to destroy the good life she has built for herself with Jacob.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>Desperate and alone Martha faces a terrible decision: stay and be beholden to Boult or journey north to find Jacob who is reported to have been killed.. The road ahead is filled with danger but also the promise of a brighter future. And where her gifts once threatened to be her downfall might they now be the very thing that sets Martha free...?</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>The brilliant follow-up to Eleanor Porter's first novel of love betrayal superstition and fear in Elizabethan England. A story of female courage ingenuity and determination this is perfect for fans of Tracy Chevalier.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>'Eleanor Porter is a major new voice in historical fiction. With her beautiful use of language and compelling storytelling she conjures the past with a vividness that lingers in the mind long after the final page.' Tim Clayton</p>