Hearts & Minds (The Brynsquilver Novels Book 2)

'She had a sharp pang of longing for home: not just for Hope, whose absence she felt all the time like a physical pain, but for her own comfortable cottage, low and dark, nestled like a sleeping cat in the lap of the Shropshire hills.' It is 1735 and Bell has been wrenched away from her beloved Hope to stay with her brother in a fiery new world of industry and ironworks. Lonely back at Brynsquilver, Hope gives shelter to Lucy, a poor runaway who has been persecuted for her dark skin. Hope and Bell feel the ties between them loosen as they are drawn to friends old and new. Then a self-appointed witchfinder rides into the hills and loyalties are tested to the core. With a colourful cast of travelling players, elixir pedlars and passing women, the story builds to a heart-stopping climax in the Assize Court at Shrewsbury. 'A vividly satisfying adventure story about the things desperate women do for love' - Emma Donoghue Read more