Ask a Bookseller: ‘The Hounding’ by Xenobe Purvis
On The Thread’s Ask a Bookseller series, we talk to independent booksellers all over the country to find out what books they’re most excited about right now.Mary Ellen Phillips of Maria’s Bookshop in Durango, Colo., says her favorite book of the summer is the debut, much-hailed historical fiction novel “The Hounding” by Xenobe Purvis. Set in Oxfordshire, England, in 1700, this story about a rumor gone wild has Salem witch trial vibes. The five sisters at the center of the novel don’t fit in. Raised by their widowed grandfather, they don’t act the way ladies are expected to. They’re loud, they…
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