Archive for December 12, 2010
THE WOLVES OF ANDOVER by Kathleen Kent
There is a brutish energy in Kathleen Kent’s prequel to her well-received HERETIC’S DAUGHTER, a comingling of harsh animalistic dangers with politics, power and passion. The howling wolves that come for their prey are both the two-legged and the four-legged kind, and each will stop at nothing to prevail.
THE WOLVES OF ANDOVER opens with the introduction of Martha Allen, a resourceful and sharp-tongued young woman who is forced to take the position of glorified servant to her weak-willed cousin Patience, who is expecting her third child in colonial Massachusetts. There she meets a giant of a man, the Welshman Thomas Carrier, a hired worker with an air of mystery. It is rumored that for the love of Oliver Cromwell’s cause, he took an axe to the head of King Charles I and now has a bounty on his own head.
December 12, 2010
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Judi Clark · 
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Tags: 17th-Century, Historical · Posted in: NE & New York, Reading Guide, Real People Fiction, Time Period Fiction
