Syvilla and the Travelling Players by Joanna B McGarry

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It is 1592. The infamous witch hunts are at their height in North Berwick in Scotland.In a nearby fishing village, a young girl named Syvilla is forced to flee to avoid being denounced, captured, and put to trial. In those days, this meant imprisonment and questioning under unimaginable torture.At her lowest point, alone and terrified with the witch hunters on her heels, she is befriended by a troupe of travelling players. They take her in and hide her in plain sight from those who would harm her.Read how Syvilla not only survives, but prospers, replacing her strict religious upbringing with colour, music, and laughter. Share her adventures travelling through the border towns with the motley crew of actors and their horses, the gentle giants, Jason and Athena, that pull their painted wagons. Read of their successes, on stage and off, as they avoid the witch hunters, fight off robbers, and entrance audiences with delightful Elizabethan music and plays to match those of Shakespeare himself.