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Witches' Rings (The Women and the Town, Bk 1)
Witches' Rings - The Women and the Town, Bk 1 Author:Kerstin Ekman, Linda Schenck (Translator) This is a translation of the author's tetralogy, published between 1974 and 1983, that traces the growth and development of a railroad town by portraying working-class women and children, rather than society's movers and shakers. — Set in a Swedish village about to enter the modern age, the story begins in the 1870s, as an excited an... more »d suspicious citizenry await the first train to arrive at their newly constructed station. We're introduced gradually to a townful of hardy and endearingly eccentric souls, who are instantly brought to life and involved in the story's several ongoing actions. We see Ekman's characters join, part, recombine, and change as years pass; trains begin to appear routinely, and the new century proves no more inclined than the old to free common people from their repetitive rounds ("witches' rings") of toil and discouragement« less