Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Judie Mitchell
It is 1769 and Verity and Hannah are Puritan daughters of New England. Their involvement in a serious crime has rendered them "sinners in the hands of an angry God". The village of Buxton is scandalised and family reputations are threatened. Meanwhile the angry God of the Puritans is slowly being threatened by adherents' more forgiving religions, causing fractures in the close-knit community. Hannah and Verity are torn between what they were raised to believe and the possibility of forgiveness for their sins,