THE HONEY WITCH

Mia Hutchinson-Shaw uses posh accents to portray the people of the nineteenth-century English village of Bardshire. Twenty-one-year-old Marigold Claude is approaching spinsterhood and is just fine with it since society never suited her anyway. Luckily, there is a place where she belongs: among the bees on the remote island of Innisfree. Her estranged grandmother reveals that Marigold is a witch and that she is cursed to never have true love. Hutchinson-Shaw switches smoothly between the characters' English and Irish accents. She muffles her voice for all the oddly frequent times the narrative calls for it and even conveys believable laughter, as well as anguished cries. S.S. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine [Published: MAY 2024]