Burning Issy

by Melvin Burgess (Author)

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  Paperback
  2003

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  In this powerful novel set in England in the age of witch hunts, Issy doesn't know who she is or where she comes from. Every night she dreams of burning in a fire and at the heart of the flames is a face she dare not look at. Fear and superstition are everywhere and life is dangerous for Issy as she runs from the Witch-finder, from the evil hag who wants her and from those she loves - and maybe from her own true nature.

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  Paperback
  1993

  $3.25

  Nobody knows where Issy came from. Rescued from fire as a baby, she lives peacefully with kindly Nat and his son, Ghyll. But then hysteria about witchcraft startsto mount, and Issy finds herself amongst the accused. So when the powerful Iohan offers her a means of escape, she cannot refuse.

  
  
  

  For a while Issy is happy with Iohan. Then, haunted by dreams of flames and shocked by new-found powers, she begins to doubt her own nature. After seeing Iohan and her friends frolicking with what appears to be the devil, she flees, believing that her own salvation depends on their undoing. And so she confesses to witchcraft and accuses her friends . . . only to realise too late that not all witches are evil . . .