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She arrives on a Thursday. She will always arrive on a Thursday. In the fenland of 1645, Maren keeps a quiet life. She tends the fire. She mends the cloth. She says yes when yes is required. Her husband is a good man and she has always known this. It is only the distance between who she is and who she is required to be that she cannot name. Then Alice comes. She comes with the smell of the fen on her and herbs she has been drying and a knowledge passed down through the women of this land for three generations. She comes and does not leave again. Not really. Not from the place in Maren's chest where she takes up residence in September and never moves. The mechanism arrives that same autumn. Men with the right authority and the right questions and all the patience in the world. The witch-finder's committees are forming. The drainage engineers are cutting new channels through the mere. Everything is being remade into something it has not decided to be. Maren watches. She stays quiet. She says yes. She will spend forty-three years learning what that cost. Consider This My Witness is a novel about a love that could not be spoken and a woman who spent a lifetime deciding whether to speak it anyway. Set against the English witch trials and the draining of the great fens, it is a story of grief made weather, of silence as survival, of one woman's act of witness: too late, and the only thing left. For readers of Hamnet, The Familiars, and The Miniaturist.

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