Owl Was a Baker's Daughter

<p><strong>Stellar historical fiction imbued with a rich sense of place.--<em>New York Times Book Review</em></strong></p><p><strong>Witty resilient and fiercely intelligent Judith emerges as a heroine for the ages. Her journey rich in historical authenticity and imaginative storytelling offers insights that resonate across the centuries.--Christina Baker Kline <em> New York Times</em> bestselling author of <em>The Exiles</em></strong></p><p><strong>For readers of Hilary Mantel and Madeline Miller a deeply engrossing work of historical fiction--a tale about a woman of the Shakespeare family struggling to manage both her private grief and public danger. </strong></p><p>At the age of sixty-one Judith Shakespeare a midwife-apothecary and twin of the long-dead Hamnet must flee provincial Stratford on horseback to avoid arrest for witchcraft. Her traveling companions are a zealous Puritan woman and child who have been displaced by civil war--the bloody seventeenth-century strife between Royalists and Roundheads. Judith is also leaving her marriage which has foundered since the wrenching loss of two adult sons to the plague.</p><p>The sequel to the author's <em>My Father Had a Daughter </em>a tale of Judith in her youth <em>The Owl Was a Baker's Daughter</em> revisits this character for the ages--Shakespeare's sharp-tongued witty youngest child no less feisty in her maturity. Four-hundred years after Judith's death Grace Tiffany brings her back onto center stage. Judith's latest tale offers profound insights--into friendship motherhood marriage religious extremism and war--which remain resoundingly true today.</p>