American writer Kathleen Kent's debut novel, The Witch's Daughter, immediately captivated both readers and critics: it made the New York Times bestseller list and was awarded the 2008 David Langham Prize for best historical novel. Kathleen Kent, descended from one of the “Salem witches,” Martha Carrier (“The Traitor’s Wife”), learned about her amazing fate as a child, listening to family legends. After conceiving the novel, Kent spent five years studying the infamous 1692 witch trials in the town of Salem in the British colony of Massachusetts in New England. Currently, Kathleen Kent is a recognized master of the historical genre, and her novel “The Witch’s Daughter” has been published in many countries around the world. The heroine of this “beautiful, deep and touching novel,” the daughter of Martha Carrier, ten-year-old Sarah, took after her mother with a sharp mind and obstinacy, and It is not easy for both of them to find a common language with relatives, neighbors, Puritan priests, and especially with each other. But in the difficult hour of trial, when hysteria of obscurantism and denunciation rises around, and people one after another are thrown into prison for aiding the devil (women, children, everyone indiscriminately), mother and daughter understand how close in spirit they are and how selflessly they can love.