{"product_id":"everyone-knows-your-mother-is-a-witch-a-guardian-best-book-of-2021-riveting-margaret-atwood-9780007548750","title":"Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch a Guardian","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRiveting' Margaret AtwoodI loved this book intensely' Lauren Groff GuardianThe plague is spreading. The hundred year war is beginning. Katharina Kepler is believed to be a witch.Known for her herbal remedies and successful children  among them Johannes, Imperial Mathematician and author of the laws of planetary motion  Katharina's life is changed by an accusation of witchcraft. Facing financial ruin, torture and even execution, she tells her side of the story.Witty, engaging and vividly imagined, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch draws on historical documents to illuminate a society undone by collective aggression and hysterical fear  a narrative with true resonance for today.Darkly funny  Her prose, which recalls Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall, is light, pared back and subtly archaic' Financial TimesSuperbly voiced  funny' TelegraphA magical brew of absurdity and brutality' Washington PostGalchen expertly weaves together a story told from multiple perspectives, showing how easy it is f\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e             \u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eEveryone Knows Your Mother is a Witch\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e           \u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘Funny in parts, absurd in others … \u003cstrong\u003eThis riveting novel takes us into the labyrinthine hearts of accused and accusers alike’ \u003c\/strong\u003eMargaret Atwood\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘\u003cstrong\u003eSuperbly voiced … funny\u003c\/strong\u003e … the absurdity, rompiness and obsession with food (usually sausages) are spot on for the era, but so too is an inescapable sense of loss’ \u003cem\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘A wise meditation on the kind of hysterical scapegoating we see so often in the age of the internet … \u003cstrong\u003eI loved this book intensely when I read it this summer and have thought of it nearly every day through this strange autumn\u003c\/strong\u003e’ Lauren Groff, \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘\u003cstrong\u003eHer prose, which recalls Hilary Mantel’s \u003cem\u003eWolf Hall\u003c\/em\u003e, is light, pared back and subtly archaic.\u003c\/strong\u003e Moments where she nods at the contemporary obsession with witchcraft are funny rather than sincere … It’s this dry humour that makes the novel sparkle’ \u003cem\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘It is remarkable that Rivka Galchen’s \u003cem\u003eEveryone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch\u003c\/em\u003e manages to pull off … a witch story that is \u003cstrong\u003eas serious as Miller’s play and as playful as Updike’s novel\u003c\/strong\u003e … \u003cstrong\u003ea persuasive and very beautiful work of fiction\u003c\/strong\u003e … this writer can animate even the most familiar material, and make it beautifully, and memorably, new’ Wyatt Mason, \u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘\u003cstrong\u003eDelightfully funny\u003c\/strong\u003e … Galchen has written another smart book that investigates the power of narrative, both good and bad, foregrounding a woman who’d only been a footnote to a famous man’s story, all while being funny and deceptively easy to read. It’s quite a magic trick’ \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘The comedy that runs through \u003cem\u003eEveryone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch\u003c\/em\u003e is \u003cstrong\u003ea magical brew of absurdity and brutality\u003c\/strong\u003e. Galchen has a Kafkaesque sense of the way the exercise of authority inflates egos and twists logic . . . \u003cstrong\u003eThere’s real sorcery here\u003c\/strong\u003e’ \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48863868191063,"sku":"9780007548750","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780007548750.jpg?v=1722269383","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/everyone-knows-your-mother-is-a-witch-a-guardian-best-book-of-2021-riveting-margaret-atwood-9780007548750","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}