A weekend read

This one is a long short story so I started and finished it over the weekend. An emotional read about the North Berwick witch trials. With a contemporary twist it was at points angry about how little things have changed, but it was also offered hope and solace.

It covers an important part of history, and I liked this quote in the book jacket:

‘If a country cannot re-tell its history, will it be stuck forever in aspic and condemned to be nothing more than a shortbread tin illustration? Hex and Rizzio are showing the way towards a reckoning, and about time too’ – Stuart Kelly, Scotland on Sunday