The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs: A Novel by Katherine Howe

The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs: A Novel
by Katherine Howe

About the Book


The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs: A Novel
Occult Fiction
Henry Holt and Co. (June 25, 2019)
Hardcover: 352 pages
ISBN-10: 1250304865
ISBN-13: 978-1250304865
Kindle ASIN: B07HF3MDDH
New York Times bestselling author Katherine Howe returns to the world of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane with a bewitching story of a New England history professor who must race against time to free her family from a curse
Connie Goodwin is an expert on America’s fractured past with witchcraft. A young, tenure-track professor in Boston, she’s earned career success by studying the history of magic in colonial America—especially women’s home recipes and medicines—and by exposing society’s threats against women fluent in those skills. But beyond her studies, Connie harbors a secret: She is the direct descendant of a woman tried as a witch in Salem, an ancestor whose abilities were far more magical than the historical record shows.
When a hint from her mother and clues from her research lead Connie to the shocking realization that her partner’s life is in danger, she must race to solve the mystery behind a hundreds’-years-long deadly curse.
Flashing back through American history to the lives of certain supernaturally gifted women, The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs affectingly reveals not only the special bond that unites one particular matriarchal line, but also explores the many challenges to women’s survival across the decades—and the risks some women are forced to take to protect what they love most.

About the Author

Katherine Howe is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane and The House of Velvet and Glass, as well as the young adult novels, Conversion and The Appearance of Annie van Sinderen. She served as editor of The Penguin Book of Witches and her fiction has been translated into over twenty languages. Descended from three women who were tried for witchcraft in Salem, she and her family live in New England and New York City, where she is at work on her next novel.
Twitter: @katherinebhowe
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My Review:
One of the special joys I experience as a lifelong avid and voracious reader is discovering authors new to me, especially delightful when the author in question already has published a number of books. Such is the happy case with author Katherine Howe. I read THE DAUGHTERS OF TEMPERANCE HOBB for a book blog tour and loved it, racing gleefully to find other novels by Ms. Howe, including THE PHYSICK BOOK OF DELIVERANCE DANE, which is actually the precursor to the events and characters of THE DAUGHTERS OF TEMPERANCE HOBBS. I am reminded both of Deborah Harkness' A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES Series and of Anne Rice's THE WITCHING HOUR Series. Readers who loved the Magical Realism of those will experience pure unending delight herein.


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