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Her Kind
Niamh Boyce
  • Published: 4 April 2019
  • ISBN: 9781844884346
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320

Her Kind

The gripping story of Ireland’s first witch hunt

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1324, Kilkennie

A woman seeks refuge for herself and her daughter in the household of a childhood friend.

The friend, Alice Kytler, gives her former companion a new name, Petronelle, a job as a servant, and warns her to never reveal their old connection.

As the city's moneylender and the country's wealthiest woman Alice is feted but also envied, especially by Kilkennie's bishop, Richard Ledrede. Determined that no one, least of all a woman, will defy the church's power he turns the people against Alice and her household.

While the tumult rages outside Petronelle tries to understand what her mistress has had to do to become so rich and powerful. On making a devastating discovery, she decides to flee with her daughter, freeing them both from their troubled past and the terrifying present.

But in trying to escape Kilkennie Petronelle, confronts forces greater than she could ever have imagined and finds herself fighting for more than her freedom ...

Inspired by a true story, Her Kind is a tense, moving and atmospheric reimagining of the events leading up to the Kilkenny Witch Trial of 1324.
  • Published: 4 April 2019
  • ISBN: 9781844884346
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320
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About the author

Niamh Boyce

Niamh Boyce was named Newcomer of the Year at the 2013 Irish Book Awards for The Herbalist, her first novel ('The most entertaining yet substantial historical novel since Joseph O'Connor's Star of the Sea' Irish Times) which was also a Number One bestseller. She won the 2012 Hennesssy XO New Irish Writer Of The Year Award and Emerging Poetry Award for her poem 'Kitty'. Her short fiction has been widely published in anthologies. Her Kind is her second novel.
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Praise for Her Kind

Shines a light on women who have been silenced. This tightly paced novel confirms Boyce as an important voice in Irish literature

Louise O'Neill

The plot is pacey and menacing, and the writing is clear, sharp and studded with glistening phrases ... a wonderful shout through time

Nuala O'Connor

Pulls us into a world both seductively alien, yet uneasily, all-too-humanly, familiar

Mia Gallagher

Niamh Boyce has taken a bleak and dismal period and sent a bolt of beautiful and revealing light into the darkness

John MacKenna

Moving and atmospheric

Irish Country Magazine

Gripping ... a complicated story of loss, ambition, misogyny, family love and what it means to belong ... evocative and atmospheric

Irish Times

Masterful ... Boyce delicately unfolds this atmospheric, magical thriller with pace and juice, while also making sure that the sentiments (vilification of women, policing of female biology, etc) echo through time

Hilary White, Sunday Independent

Beautifully written and transports us to the 14th century, though its themes loudly resonate today

Eileen Dunne, RTÉ Culture

[Her Kind] sings of these modern times

RTÉ Guide

A beautifully absorbing novel, illuminating the remarkable story of a woman whose life has since been subsumed into folklore. Highly recommended.

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