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Spring 2004 • Vol. XXVI No. 2 • Fiction |

The Witch of Truro

By Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman is the author of many best-selling novels and books of short stories. Her most recent novels are The Dovekeepers and The Museum of Extraordinary Things. This spring Random House will publish Nightbird, a magical book for younger readers. The Witch of Truro was published in the collection Blackbird House.

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