Bright I Burn

A fierce,electrifying novel inspired by the true story of the first woman to be condemned as a witch in Ireland In thirteenth-century Irelanda woman with power is a woman to be feared. Alicethe daughter of a wealthy innkeeper in Kilkennygrows up watching her mother wither under the constraints of family responsibilitiesΓÇöand she vows that she will never suffer the same fate. In timeshe discovers she has a flair for making moneyand takes her father’s flourishing business to new heights. But as her riches and stature growso too do rumors about her private life. By the time she marries her fourth husbandΓÇöthe three earlier are deadΓÇöa storm of local gossip and resentment culminates in a life-threatening accusation . . . A breathtaking act of imaginationBright I Burn gives voice to a woman lost to historywho dared to carve a space of her own in a manΓÇÖs world.