About When Light Breaks Through: A Salem Witch Trials Story:
When Light Breaks Through brings a fresh perspective that takes us beyond the witch trials to tell a compelling, hopeful story of what happened in Salem Village.
In 1692, twelve-year-old Ann Putnam and the other “afflicted children” bring devastation to the colonial New England community. Beginning as a daring, adolescent game, their accusations of witchcraft lead to twenty executions and scores of imprisonments, wreck families and create deep and bitter divisions among the people.
Five years later, Joseph Green, a young schoolteacher who is in love and eager to marry, takes on the ministry that no one else wants and with it the mission of healing Salem Village. With some dramatic actions that earn the people’s respect, Joseph makes progress in his quest to bring them together, but he knows that true fellowship will elude them while the hostility from the witch trials casts a shadow over every relationship and encounter.
When the opportunity comes, Joseph helps Ann to make an appeal that could finally unite the community.
Targeted Age Group: 16+
Written by: Brenda Murphy
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Author Bio:
Brenda Murphy is the author of more than twenty books. Recently she has been writing mainly historical fiction. Besides When Light Breaks Through: A Salem Witch Trials Story (2023), her recent fiction includes Becoming Carlotta: A Biographical Novel (2018), based on the life of the notorious actress Carlotta Monterey, and After the Voyage: An Irish American Story (2016), based on the experience of her immigrant family in the Boston area from 1870 until the 1930s. After teaching at universities in New York and Connecticut, Brenda now lives in Maryland where she enjoys writing full time surrounded by deer and horse farms.
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