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Hodder stakes claim on witch trials tale
Hodder has snapped up Erika Mailman's début The Witch's Trinity, a "haunting and unforgettable" novel set during the witch trials in 16th-century Germany.
Kate Howard bought the book from agent Anna Jarota of Anna Jarota Literary Agency and is rushing it out this December as a demy hardback. Crown publishes next month in the US. "It's not a wide, sweeping view of the witch trials," said Howard. "It's more personal. A mother is accused by her daughter-in-law because she wants her out of the way."
Mailman, born in Vermont to a German–American family, is the descendant of a woman who twice stood trial for witchcraft in the Salem witch trials in 1692. "The content is quite literary—it's historically accurate—but it's also high end commercial writing," Howard added.
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