The Merrybegot - Tapa blanda

Praise for Julie Hearn's first book - 'Follow Me Down':- this immensely accomplished novel is spiked with humour. (Sunday Telegraph )

although written for younger readers, adults, too, will find it hard to put down. (Choice Magazine )

here is a voice which is a genuine original . . . a new, wild, free voice. (Books for Keeps )

A debut novel which deserves our attention . . . an extraordinary story (The Bookseller )

This is the story of Nell who lives with her grandmother, the local cunning woman and healer, in a west country village in the seventeenth century. When one of the minister's daughters falls pregnant she and her sister attempt to conceal it by accusing Nell of putting a curse on them. The witchfinder general, Matthew Hopkins, is called in and in an atmosphere of fear, the local villagers turn nasty and Nell's grandmother falls victim to their hatred. Nell is all alone, and in great danger . . .