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Hex: Darkland Tales

Hex: Darkland Tales

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Hex by Jenni Fagan is part of the Darkland Tales, a book series made of retellings of stories from Scotland’s history, myth, and legend. It is, far below footfall, or taverns, or flats; below beds, or kitchens, or hugs, or hope, or church, or prayer, or freedom, or laughter, or air; below shuttered windows, or dogs asleep in front of fires.

No es nada sutil en ese aspecto, el enfado de la autora es palpable en todo momento, y entiendo que a algunos lectores les pueda chirriar. The first novel in the series is Rizzio by Denise Mina and revolved around the brutal murder of David Rizzio in 1566, private secretary to Mary Queen of Scots. As the hours pass and dawn approaches, Geillis recounts the circumstances of her arrest, brutal torture, confession and trial, while Iris offers support, solace – and the tantalising prospect of escape.

This is a book that perfectly demonstrates how generations of women still have so much to change in the world and everything in common centuries apart. The historical facts of the persecution of women through accusations of witchcraft are all too real. A pamphlet that was produced at the time of the North Berwick witch trials was titled Newes from Scotland and James used this pamphlet to conclude his work Daemonologie (1597) which was published again when he ascended the English throne in 1603. Every day the leading Tory papers – the Daily Mail, Telegraph and Express all have their campaigns against ‘wokery’ (the new witchery? Iris es una mera espectadora, no me aportó nada y considero que hubiera dado igual si se hubiera omitido su presencia.

Along the coast of Fife, in villages like Culross and Pittenweem, history records that some women were executed as witches. Fagan offers a simple yet very effective way in which to explore how and why women are still discriminated against almost 450 years later. Iris later turns into a crow and this gives the novel an air of the supernatural that fits perfectly with the subject matter she is writing about. It raises the question - if a country cannot re-tell its history, will it be stuck forever in aspic and condemned to be nothing more than a shortbread tin illustration?Just children, or girls, old or ugly, outcast, poor, strange, odd-voiced, limping or unholy or too tall or too pretty… when will we, not as witches but simply as women, curse our accusers? From the multi-award-winning, former Granta Best Young British Novelist, Jenni Fagan tells the story of Geillis Duncan, a teenage girl caught up in the sixteenth century witch trials in the Scottish coastal town of North Berwick.



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