SINOPSIS DEL LIBRO

<p>Rural Suffolk, 1759. As the country waits for Halley&apos;s Comet, Sally Poppy is sentenced to hang for a heinous murder. When she claims to be pregnant, a jury of twelve matrons are taken from their housework to decide whether she&apos;s telling the truth, or simply trying to escape the noose.<br>With only midwife Lizzy Luke prepared to defend the girl, and a mob baying for blood outside, the matrons wrestle with their new authority, and the ...Seguir leyendo