Bestselling local author Niamh Boyce will launch her book in Athy Library on Friday 12th April at 7pm.
Inspired by the true story of Alice Kytler, HER KIND is a tense, moving and atmospheric re-imagining of the events leading up to the Kilkenny Witch Trial of 1324.
The book is published by Penguin Ireland and priced at €15.00
Castledermot writer John McKenna said of the book: "Niamh Boyce has taken a bleak and dismal period in history and sent a bolt of beautiful and revealing light into the darkness, producing a book that is as powerful as it is revealing."
Another critic said: "Skilfully lifts a charred corner of the past to conjure up witch-hunting Kilkenny and its treacherous, grabby, politic inhabitants —pulling us into a world both seductively alien, yet uneasily, all-too-humanly, familiar."
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