The Physik Book of Deliverance Dane

This one was purely for fun.  I've always liked period pieces.  My husband swears that if, while flipping through channels on the TV I catch a glimpse of anyone in a corset, that's what we wind up watching.  I also like stories about witches - no comments from the peanut gallery, please.

The Phyisck Book of Deliverance Dane is no great literary masterpiece, but a fun, relaxing escape.  The story is Connie's - Constance.  A graduate student in history at Harvard, Connie (Constance) is embarking on her dissertation, trying to find and hone a topic while also cleaning out her grandmother's abandoned home, and deal with her flighty and difficult advisor.  For various reasons, Connie finds her research leading her to attempt to find a rare primary source - the physick or receipt book of a woman tried and found guilty of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials.  She finds that her life and the life of the accused witch, Deliverance Dane, intersect in many important ways.