{"product_id":"9781787633414-witch-in-the-well","title":"The Witch in the Well","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA deliciously disturbing Gothic tale of a revenge reaching out across the years. \u003cp\u003eOver a hundred years ago, the citizens of F- did something rather bad. And local school teacher Catherine Evans has made writing the definitive account of what happened when Ilsbeth Clark drowned in the well her life's work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe town's people may not want their past raked up, but Catherine is determined to shine a light upon that shameful event. For Ilsbeth was an innocent, after all. She was shunned and ostracised by rumour-mongers and ill-wishers and someone has to speak up for her. And who better than Catherine, who has herself felt the sting and hurt of such whisperings?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut then a childhood friend returns to F -. Elena is a successful author whose book, \u003ci\u003eThe Whispers Inside: A Reawakening of the Soul, \u003c\/i\u003ehas earned her a certain celebrity. In search of a new subject, she takes an interest in the story of Ilsbeth Clark and announces her intention to write a book about the long-dead woman, focusing on the natural magic she believes she possessed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd Elena has everything Catherine has not, like a platform and connections and no one seems to care that Elena's book will be pure speculation, tainting Ilsbeth's memory rather than preserving it. Catherine is determined that something must be done and plots to blunt her rival's pen. However she had not allowed for the fact that the past might not be so dead after all - that something is reaching out from the well, disturbing her reality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBefore summer's over, one woman will be dead, the other accused of murder . but is she really guilty, or are there other forces at work? And who was Ilsbeth Clark, really? An innocent? A witch? Or something else entirely?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40736996130913,"sku":"9781787633414","price":15.02,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_10885322_jpg.jpg?v=1715209182","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781787633414-witch-in-the-well","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}