{"product_id":"owl-was-a-bakers-daughter-hb","title":"Owl Was A Bakers Daughter Hb","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Witty, resilient, and fiercely intelligent, Judith emerges as a heroine for the ages. Her journey, rich in historical authenticity and imaginative storytelling, offers insights that resonate across the centuries.\"—Christina Baker Kline,\u003cem\u003e New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Exiles\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFor readers of Hilary Mantel and Madeline Miller, a deeply engrossing work of historical fiction—a tale about a woman of the Shakespeare family struggling to manage both her private grief and public danger.  \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the age of sixty-one, Judith Shakespeare, a midwife-apothecary and twin of the long-dead Hamnet, must flee provincial Stratford on horseback to avoid arrest for witchcraft. Her traveling companions are a zealous Puritan woman and child who have been displaced by civil war—the bloody seventeenth-century strife between Royalists and Roundheads. Judith is also leaving her marriage, which has foundered since the wrenching loss of two adult sons to the plague.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sequel to the author’s \u003cem\u003eMy Father Had a Daughter, \u003c\/em\u003ea tale of Judith in her youth, \u003cem\u003eThe Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter\u003c\/em\u003e revisits this character for the ages—Shakespeare’s sharp-tongued, witty youngest child, no less feisty in her maturity. Four-hundred years after Judith’s death, Grace Tiffany brings her back onto center stage. Judith’s latest tale offers profound insights—into friendship, motherhood, marriage, religious extremism, and war—which remain resoundingly true today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57194973954430,"sku":"NW9780063380530","price":17.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780063380530.jpg?v=1778541179","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/owl-was-a-bakers-daughter-hb","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}