The Burnings - Naomi Kelsey
The Burnings Review by Andrea Rating 9/10 When I saw the cover of this book in the shop window at Waterstones it really caught my eye, so much so I had to go inside and find out what the book was about. When I found out that it was about Witches in Scotland and was based on real life I just had to pick up a copy. Luckily I had some credit to use. When I went on holiday last September I debated whether to take a book I was currently reading or take a completely new one in the hope of reading it within a week. I decided to take this as well as my Kindle and one other book I was already reading. I started reading this when I had a spare bit of time, but mostly in the evenings when we got back to the caravan after a fun day out exploring. The story takes place in 1589 and follows Geillis, a wise-woman and housemaid in Scotland and Margareta a lady in waiting to Anne of Denmark who have both newly arrived in Scotland from Denmark. Geillis gets caught up with a coven of suspected ...