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Weird Sister (Paperback)

by Kate Pullinger (Author) "She has a lot of luggage ..." (more)
3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Phoenix; New edition edition (5 Oct 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0753810646
  • ISBN-13: 978-0753810644
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 397,522 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The arrival of beautiful, witty and cool Agnes Samuel in the English village of Warboys causes a stir. Her American glamour awards her the affections of the sleepy fen village, as she insinuates herself into the heart and home of the ancient Throckmorton family. And this is where the plot becomes rather sinister - for no-one remembers the events of 1593 when a frightened girl by the name of Agnes Samuel was betrayed by the Throckmortons and hanged as a witch. A modern gothic novel - brilliant, chilling and hugely enjoyable. (Kirkus UK)

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American Agnes Samuel is the kind of woman whom people remember: beautiful, witty, cool. But does anyone in the sleepy Fenland village of Warboys remember another Agnes Samuel, a frightened girl betrayed by her neighbours and wrongly condemned to death as a witch?
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5.0 out of 5 stars Capturing Fenland, 4 April 2007
By Mrs. Liz Wright "Liz Wright" (UK) - See all my reviews
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I was amazed to read that Kate Pullinger is from Canada. Her evocative account of the fenland (thats North Cambridgeshire NOT Cambridge) is compelling and accurate. I should know, I live here. It took me a while to get round to reading this book as I hate reading the unjust accounts of witch trials, it is sickening. But this is very different. This is as much a story of a dysfunctional family and a crumbling house and way of life as it is about witchcraft. The writing style is spare and each sentence is beautiful but not in that sort of flowery literary way but in a direct and again, I have to say evocative, feeling. Seeing it through each characters eyes means that the strands are very obvious and I could not wait to see how it turned out. I loved the last sentence, Robert thinks, Robert hopes - this won't spoil the plot at all but it is a shocker of an ending.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Sinister, compulsive read, 31 Jan 2003
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Based on a real English witchcraft case from 1593, Weird Sister is a chilling, delicious book. Far from being a tedious historical 'recreation', it reproduces the atmosphere of the original case (detailed in a contemporary pamphlet) brilliantly. The book focuses on the spooky incision of the magical into the ordinary world of the modern Throckmorton family whose ancestors indeed accused and caused the deaths of three 'witches'. The characters are well-drawn, and the tale, though sometimes sexually explicit or shockingly violent, is a perfect, dark gem. There are one or two divergences from the 'real history' of the case in the modern version, and the reader is left questioning what was really what (and who was who) in a pleasant, shivery way.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A tale of enchantment that turns to revenge and horror., 18 Dec 2000
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Weird sister is a story that slowly builds into a gruesom tale of revenge and horror. Agnes is a beautiful american woman who arrives one day out of the blue to captivate the occupents of a lonely village in the heart of the fens. The villagers want her as their friend, and so with her cool charm she seats herslf within the heart of the oldest family within Warboys. The ancient family of the Throckmorton's. A strange family, a family that is not interested in history, a family already nestled in the hand of tragedy. People that Agnes fits into without a flinch, and then things begin to happen...

There is another Agnes, a young woman who was born in Warboys centuries earlier, who was hanged along with her parents for being a witch. The people that condemmed them were their wealthy neighbours... the Throckmortons.

This is a great book with a narrative thats pace slowly picks up untill the last few pages almost turn by them selves as you long to know the outcome of such a tragic tale.

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Very disappointing. Thin characterisation, undistinguished writing, daft plot, and zero sense of the fenland setting. Read more
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