In this international bestseller, Kathleen Kent dives into the realm of a young girl in the late 1600s. At an insecure age, Sarah Carrier, daughter to Martha Carrier, tries to understand the events of the Salem Witch Trials. When her mother is arrested for being a witch, Sarah clings desperately to what she knows to be true, and yet has to tell a lie in order to save herself and her family.
The Salem Witch Trials are well documented and well known, but not often talked about or written on. The Heretic's Daughter gives a thought provoking inside look into what it could have been like to grow up surrounded by the chaos involved in accusing friends, neighbors and families as witches. Young Adults and Adults will simultaneously find Kent's novel fascinating and terrifying, and will walk away reeling trying to comprehend the madness and to decide how they would have reacted and what they would have done.
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