Everyone knows your mother is a witch
Title:
Everyone knows your mother is a witch
Author:
Galchen, Rivka.
ISBN:
9780007548750
Publication Information:
London : 4th Estate, 2022.
Physical Description:
275 p. ; 20 cm
Abstract:
1618, Württemberg, a German duchy. Plague is spreading. The Thirty Years' War has begun. Fear and suspicion are in the air throughout the Holy Roman Empire. In the small town of Leonberg, Katharina Kepler, an illiterate widow known for her herbal remedies, is accused of being a witch by Ursula Reinbold, who accuses Katharina of offering her a bitter, witchy drink that has made her ill. Her son Johannes, the Imperial Mathematician and renowned author of the laws of planetary motion, must turn his attention from the music of the spheres to the job of defending his mother. -- Adapted from jacket.
Subject:
| Widows -- Fiction. |
| Plague -- Fiction. |
| Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 -- Social aspects -- Fiction. |
| Jealousy -- Fiction. |
| Hysteria (Social psychology) -- Fiction. |
| Suspicion -- Fiction. |
| Families -- Fiction. |
| Historical fiction. |
Summary:
1618, Württemberg, a German duchy. Plague is spreading. The Thirty Years' War has begun. Fear and suspicion are in the air throughout the Holy Roman Empire. In the small town of Leonberg, Katharina Kepler, an illiterate widow known for her herbal remedies, is accused of being a witch by Ursula Reinbold, who accuses Katharina of offering her a bitter, witchy drink that has made her ill. Her son Johannes, the Imperial Mathematician and renowned author of the laws of planetary motion, must turn his attention from the music of the spheres to the job of defending his mother. --