Maren Halvorsen

The Bailiff's Wife

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

When Sarah Kidd arrives in Chalfont St James, the townspeople made it clear that they would rather let a crime go unpunished than listen to an outsider. But Sarah is sure that it is her husband whose body was discovered near the inn and buried in a pauper's grave, the fortune he earned as a bailiff missing. And she has an opinion about who is to blame. Quaker Frances Bright and the new parish priest Arthur Brunskill, both also outsiders of a sort, take up her cause, each in their own way. Yet it takes the actions of an adolescent girl, Frances' daughter, Jane, to ensure that justice, of a kind, is done. * A 17th-century broadsheet about a murder in a village north of London sparked this tale of a woman's search for justice. Against the background of Restoration England, we find ourselves in a world not unlike our own, full of passions and prejudices, but built without apology on rank and deference.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cuidono Press
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 133mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9781944453282
• ISBN-10: 1944453288
• Artikelnr.: 75713172

Autorenporträt

Maren Halvorsen is a historian, and a former college lecturer and administrator. She lives with her husband and dog in a small town on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington, where she is active within the local writing community. She has written for Chiron Review, October Hill Magazine, and Tidepools Magazine. The Bailiff's Wife grew out of the discovery of a broadsheet during her scholarly research on the early English Quakers.