Widdershins

<h4>Did all women have something of the witch about them?</h4><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Jane Chandler is an apprentice healer. From childhood she and her mother have used herbs to cure the sick. But Jane will soon learn that her sheltered life in a small village is not safe from the troubles of the wider world.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>From his father's beatings to his uncle's raging sermons John Sharpe is beset by bad fortune. Fighting through personal tragedy he finds his purpose: to become a witchfinder and save innocents from the scourge of witchcraft.</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Widdershins</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> tells the story of the women who were persecuted and the men who condemned them. Based on the little-known Newcastle witch trials where fifteen women and one man were hanged for witchcraft on a single day in August 1650.</span></p>