{"product_id":"book-j2fb","title":"The Owl Was a Baker's Daughter","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\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,\u003cem\u003e New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Exiles\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFor readers of Hilary Mantel and Madeline Miller, a deeply engrossing work of historical fiction-a tale of a woman of the Shakespeare family struggling to manage both her private grief and public danger.  \u003c\/strong\u003e\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 \u003cem\u003eMy Father Had a Daughter, \u003c\/em\u003ea tale of Judith in her youth, \u003cem\u003eThe Owl Was a Baker's Daughter\u003c\/em\u003e 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\u003cp\u003eThis work is narrated in Original Pronunciation, that is, Early Modern English, as a nod to the phonological system of Shakespeare's time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49277341499696,"sku":"BDj2fb","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49277341434160,"sku":"ZEj2fb","price":45.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49277341466928,"sku":"ZMj2fb","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/j2fb-Square-cover.jpg?v=1782461002","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-j2fb","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}