Taverner, Jay

Hearts and Minds

Into a far from peaceful English village comes the charismatic actor Mr Brown and his touring company. Lucy, a young black washerwoman, soon finds that Brown is not quite what he seems. But their snatched moments together will not keep her happy for long. As the atmosphere in the poverty-stricken village intensifies, charges of witchcraft and child murder lead to a series of tragedies and close escapes. A gripping eighteenth-century drama from a practised hand at historical fiction. "Hearts and Minds" takes up where Jay Taverner's popular first novel "Rebellion" (Onlywomen, 1997) left off, but is complete in itself.