A good historical novel with magic, Winter Witch is set in Wales and is about a young woman who is different – she doesn’t speak and the villagers are suspicious of her. Her mother arranges for her to marry a widower from another village, hoping to give her daughter a new start. (The mother is dying but the daughter doesn’t know this.)
The husband is a drover, he drives his villages livestock to England to sell and brings home the money for the villagers. Of course, things start to go wrong and the young mute wife is blamed. The story is well told, moves right along and you find yourself really rooting for the young witch. There is a happy ending after a whole bunch of not so nice events.