![]() ![]() The key contains a yellowing fragment of parchment with a name written upon it: Deliverance (Hazeltine) Dane. ![]() ![]() As Connie is drawn deeper into the mysteries of the family house, she discovers an ancient key within a seventeenth-century Bible. But when her mother asks her to handle the sale of Connie’s grandmother’s abandoned home near Salem, she can’t refuse. Harvard graduate student Connie Goodwin needs to spend her summer doing research for her doctoral dissertation. The latter was one year before events in Danvers and Salem to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the trials and honor the innocent victims. The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane takes place in Cambridge, Salem, and Marblehead, Massachusetts, flashing back and forth between two time periods: during the Salem witch trials in 1692, and the summer of 1991. It debuted at number two on the New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestseller list on June 20, 2009. It was published by VOICE, an imprint of Hyperion (publisher). The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane (2009) is the first novel of American author Katherine Howe. ![]()
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