'She was locked in the keep for more than a week. First they 'walked' her, marching her up and down, up and down between them, for a day and a night until she could no longer hobble, her feet all bloody and swollen. She would not confess. So they set about to prove she was a witch...' Pages from a journal are loosely sewn into a quilt. A quilt that lies undisturbed for more than three hundred years until it is carefully taken apart for cleaning and out of its folds fall a powerfull and moving story. The story of Mary - granddaughter of a witch. A taut, exciting novel. Witch Child holds the reader gripped throughout.
