The Bewitching by Jill Dawson (Sceptre, £18.99)
JILL DAWSON’S NOVELS are often set in the Fens, often based on true stories and often written with a clear feminist purpose. And yet, they’re also astonishingly varied.
Her last book , for example, turned the nanny murdered by Lord Lucan in 1974 from a historical footnote into a warm and vivid human being (from the, another real-life case allows Dawson to plunge us deep into the very strange, superstitious heart of East Anglia in Elizabethan times.