In the era of the Puritans, the author's ancestors, judges william and son John Ha(w)throne, had respectively ordered whipping of Quakers, and had presided over the infamous witchcraft trials of salem. Drawing from this turbulent family historu, Hawthrone has created a jewel of a novel that contains a powerful plot and a scintillating climaz of great depth to match. The house of the seven gableā¦