Mary Sharratt, Author . Houghton Mifflin $24 (259p) ISBN 978-0-618-46232-2
This story of three women—a mother, her daughter and the town pariah—living in a Minnesota hamlet in 1923 is a heartfelt tale of female empowerment, hampered slightly by unnecessary exposition and a sometimes predictable plot. Fifteen-yea
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Mary Sharratt, Author . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt $24 (333p) ISBN 978-0-547-06967-8
The 1612 Lancashire, England, witch trials that resulted in nine executions inspires Sharratt’s gorgeously imagined novel that wonders if some of the accusations of witchcraft might be true. Sharratt (The Vanishing Point
) focuses on the...
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Mary Sharratt, Author Mariner Books $13.95 (369p) ISBN 978-0-618-46233-9
Sexual tension and foreboding abound in this engaging but clumsy colonial potboiler. Sharrat's novel chronicles the travails of Hannah and May Powers, close English sisters who have been raised by their physician father. May is sent to Maryland in...
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Mary Sharratt, Author Coffee House Press $14.95 (252p) ISBN 978-1-56689-097-7
In this remarkable debut, Minnesota native Sharratt--coordinator of the Munich Writers Workshop--weaves dark, evocative fairy tales and passionate longings into an incandescent coming-of-age story. Orphaned by the age of 16, German native Kathrin...
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Mary Sharratt. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-547-56784-6
Sharratt (Daughters of the Witching Hill) offers up an imaginative retelling of the fascinating life of the 12th-century nun Hildegard von Bingen. As the 10th child, Hildegard is given to the church as a tithe at age eight, whereupon she becomes a...
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Mary Sharratt. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26 (384p) ISBN 978-0-544-30076-7
Sharratt’s (Shakespeare’s Muse) latest is a well-constructed historical novel set in Elizabethan England about the Bard of Avon, adopting the premise that Shakespeare relied on a female collaborator. A Jewish orphan whose persecuted family fled...
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Mary Sharratt. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26 (400p) ISBN 978-0-544-80089-2
Both during her life and after, Viennese artist Alma Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel (1879-1964) received countless love letters; Sharratt’s passionate and occasionally overwrought novel is another, one notable for its focus on Alma’s artistic...
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Mary Sharratt. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-1-328-51877-4
Sharratt (Illuminations) delivers an intense if somewhat diffuse portrait of medieval pilgrim and mystic Margery Kempe. After the birth of Margery’s first child sends her into a depression, she senses demons all around her. She endures 13 more...
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