{"product_id":"owl-was-a-baker-s-daughter-hardcover","title":"Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter (Hardcover)","description":"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Stellar historical fiction imbued with a rich sense of place.\"--New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Witty, resilient, and fiercely intelligent, Judith emerges as a heroine for the ages. Her journey, rich in historical authenticity and imaginative storytelling, offers insights that resonate across the centuries.\"--Christina Baker Kline, New York Times bestselling author of The Exiles\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor readers of Hilary Mantel and Madeline Miller, a deeply engrossing work of historical fiction--a tale about a woman of the Shakespeare family struggling to manage both her private grief and public danger. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAt the age of sixty-one, Judith Shakespeare, a midwife-apothecary and twin of the long-dead Hamnet, must flee provincial Stratford on horseback to avoid arrest for witchcraft. Her traveling companions are a zealous Puritan woman and child who have been displaced by civil war--the bloody seventeenth-century strife between Royalists and Roundheads. Judith is also leaving her marriage, which has foundered since the wrenching loss of two adult sons to the plague.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe sequel to the author's My Father Had a Daughter, a tale of Judith in her youth, The Owl Was a Baker's Daughter revisits this character for the ages--Shakespeare's sharp-tongued, witty youngest child, no less feisty in her maturity. Four-hundred years after Judith's death, Grace Tiffany brings her back onto center stage. Judith's latest tale offers profound insights--into friendship, motherhood, marriage, religious extremism, and war--which remain resoundingly true today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tiffany, Grace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52337317806354,"sku":"9780063380530","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0270\/9238\/5846\/files\/15009403482210.jpg?v=1780440797","url":"https:\/\/hbswarehousesale.com\/products\/owl-was-a-baker-s-daughter-hardcover","provider":"Harvard Book Store Warehouse Sale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}