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The Manningtree Witches
Desmond Elliott · 2021 · WinnerJames Tait · 2021 · ShortlistBetty Trask · 2021 · ShortlistDesmond Elliott · 2020 · ShortlistDesmond Elliott · 2019 · Shortlist
Award History
| Award | Year | Status | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Desmond Elliott Prize | 2021 | Winner | “For its startling historical voice — simultaneously contemporary and archaic — and its feminist fury at the persecution of women.” |
| James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction | 2021 | Shortlist | |
| Betty Trask Award | 2021 | Shortlist | |
| Desmond Elliott Prize | 2020 | Shortlist | |
| Desmond Elliott Prize | 2019 | Shortlist |
About This Book
A. K. Blakemore's debut novel imagines the 1645 Manningtree witch trials in Essex — the largest witch hunt in English history, prosecuted by Matthew Hopkins — from the perspective of Rebecca West, a young woman caught in its net. Written in a startling contemporary-historical voice that is by turns lyrical, crude, and furious, the novel is both feminist historical fiction and a meditation on female powerlessness. It won the Desmond Elliott Prize in 2021 and the Ondaatje Prize shortlist.
About the Author
A. K. Blakemore is a British poet and novelist born in 1991 in London. Read more →
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