'Full of lush and colourful prose… Hester proves that a woman will do whatever she must to prosper’

SARAH PENNER, author of The Lost Apothecary

'In dreamlike yet vivid prose, Albanese weaves a story about nineteenth-century Salem, a place with a dark history where secrets still abound’

CHRISTINA BAKER KLINE, author of The Exiles

'A masterpiece. Rich in detail and hauntingly lyrical… enthralling, ambitious, and a total knock-out'

FIONA DAVIS, author of The Magnolia Palace

'Audacious and very entertaining’

BREENA CLARKE, author of River, Cross My Heart

'Luminous… a spellbinding tapestry'

AFIA ATAKORA, author of Conjure Women

'This page-turning and poignant novel beautifully imagines the untold life story of the woman who went down in literary history wearing a scarlet letter'

ALICE ELLIOTT DARK, author of Fellowship Point