About the Author

 

MARY SHARRATT is an American writer who has lived in the Pendle region of Lancashire, England, for the past seven years. Her inspiration for Daughters of the Witching Hill arose directly from the wild, brooding landscape: the true story of the Pendle witches unfolded almost literally in her backyard. All the major characters and events portrayed in the novel are drawn from court clerk Thomas Potts’s account of the 1612 Lancashire witch trials, in which seven women and two men from Pendle Forest were hanged as witches. The author of the critically acclaimed novels Summit Avenue, The Real Minerva, and The Vanishing Point, Sharratt is also the coeditor of the subversive fiction anthology Bitch Lit, a celebration of female antiheroes, strong women who break all the rules.