This book is a diary of a young girl who travels. From England to Salem and then another town called Belueh in the 17th century. Her grandmother has been killed for being a witch and she is fearful because she knows that she also has powers. It's easy to read historical fiction written as a "diary found sewn into a quilt".

I really liked this book. The characters in this book was intresting although I would have wanted to know more about them. I feel like the more you think about the story the more you understand and the more detailed it becomes.
And may I say how can you end a book in mid-senteance???!!!! I know the book didn't really end there but it might as well had because it was the end of Mary's diary.

Set in the 1660s this tells the story of a girl called Mary who after her grandma is tried and convicted of being a witch is sent to America to start a new life untainted with the witch stigma. Guess where she ends up....yep Salem!!

Its very interesting reading about how the English carved a life for themselves in a harsher less forgiving climate with limited tools and food and hardly any knoweledge and how the Puritans brought their fears and superstitions with them.

Cant believe how little evidence was needed to have someone tried and convicted as a witch. All that was required was someone with a petty grudge to say you had given them the evil eye. You would find yourself in court and every time you tried to speak in your defence the girls/accusers would scream and roll about in a fit and say you were torturing them with pins etc and kick up such a scene you were convicted and burnt/hung as witch. Scary eh

I don't know what it is about this book, but I absolutely loved it. Maybe because there are traditional witchcraft roots in this book.

Mary Newbury has lived her whole life in a village, with her grandmother, never knowing who her parents were. That is, till one day the villagers accused her grandmother of being a witch and killed her. Now Mary has to run away to save herself from sharing the fate of her grandmother. She must cross the ocean to an unknown land along with a band of puritans.

The book is an amazing account of the life of the seventeenth century settlers who came from England to settle in America. Celia Rees has done her research, and it shows. Witch Child gives us a detailed description of the lives the of the new Englanders of those days. It tells us of the hardships they had to go through. Crossing an ocean, and settling in a new land, isolated from civilization, surrounded by forests, natives and wild animals. The life of the puritans of those days were clouded by their beliefs and they lived in constant fear of witches and, in the case of the settlers, natives. Crossing the sea in those days was no small feat. They had to fight diseases, especially scurvy; and lived in fear of storms. There weren't proper doctors in those days, and most died on the journey itself.

The story of Mary Newbury is a touching one, showing how she had to cross the ocean, fight disease, make new friends among the setters. It also tells us how on reaching America, they had face the hardships of settling down on a new land.

I absolutely loved this book, I can't wait to get my hands on the sequel

Ugh

An journey for a woman whose Family member was murdered as a witch in England to her being sent to America to start a new life. However, the people she is sent to live with are just as suspicious and dangerous as the England she left behind. A definite testament to the way life was back in that time.

I loved this quick read! Captivating yet eerie, this story transports the reader to the era of the Salem witch hunts. The only part of this that didn't make much sense was the using a pine branch as a torch as pine smoke is toxic. Other than that, it was great.