Silence of Stone (23 page)

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I am grateful to Amy Evans for her gracious and generous hospitality when I visited the Isle of Demons – Harrington Harbour – and I thank Christopher Lirette of Repentigny, Quebec, for taking the time to guide me to Marguerite's Cave. I also greatly appreciate Rhonda Molloy's immense talents in designing
Silence of Stone
.

Thanks also go to Patricia Casson-Henderson and Morgane Chollet for reviewing early drafts of the novel, and I am tremendously grateful and indebted to my daughters Amy and Megan Beckel Kratz and to Michele Bergstrom, Christine Champdoizeau, Debra Durchslag, Tom Joseph, Clyde Rose, Rebecca Rose, and Denise Wildcat for critiquing the penultimate draft of this novel. All of them gave me valuable comments worthy of serious consideration. My deepest appreciation goes to Pat Byrne who has supported and encouraged me since the very first word.

“[T]his richly imagined, beautifully structured novel…
All Gone Widdun
's portrait of sanctioned inhumanity is near brilliant…a captivating story, very well told.”

Jim Bartley,
The Globe & Mail.

“
All Gone Widdun
is a very powerful, well-written novel which truly brings alive the character of Shawnawdithit… This novel will provide many hours of reading enjoyment and at the same time highlight one of the saddest chapters in our history.”

Mike McCarthy,
The Evening Telegram
.

“Beckel offers us a new world and new insights into the human heart. It's a beautiful story, beautifully rendered.”

Marshall Cook,
The Creativity Connection.

A novel of William Cormack's quest to save the Beothuk from extinction, his love for Shawnawdithit, a young Beothuk woman, and the tragedy of her life and the lives of her people. Based on historical and ethnographic accounts of the Beothuk, the novel is a fresh glimpse into a pivotal period of Newfoundland's heritage. Winner of the
Book Achievement Award for Best Fiction in 1999
from the Midwest Independent Publishers Association.

ISBN 1-55081-147-9 / $19.95 PB / 5 x 8 / 392 PP

“[A] major work…While the reader is ever conscious of the setting and the horrific tenor of the of the times…[Beckel] succeeds in breathing life into the characters; they are real and superbly individualized…a splendid literary creation that is an important socio-historical document as well…The pervasive darkness that this great novel depicts offers, too, the luminously redemptive influence of love. I have used the word ‘great' in no facile way, I assure you, for the creation resonates with the power of the works of such masters as Hawthorne and Miller.”

Enos Watts, author of
After the Locusts, Autumn Vengeance
, and
Spaces Between the Trees
(short-listed for the 2005 Winterset Award).

“[T]wo things make this book shine. First, the book is remarkably well researched. Beckel knows the period, from the pressures of religious wars that shook Germany down to details of city life, architecture and clothing…Secondly (and most rewarding for readers looking for more than a fresh account of the witch trials) is a series of small, bridging passages where the author allows Satan a first-person commentary on the ordeals that grip Eva.”

Bruce Johnson,
Atlantic Books Today.

“Sometimes there's an exceptional novel…Annamarie Beckel's
Dancing in the Palm of His Hand
…[is] a powerful, thought-provoking novel. Highly recommended.”

Denise Moore,
Hi-Rise.

“Ultimately, this is where Beckel's book shines: in its treatment of ordinary people faced with a disparity between their religious beliefs and their own moral sense.”

Mark Callanan,
The Independent.

A novel about the horrors of the European witch persecutions as revealed through Eva Rosen, a young widow accused of witchcraft, her persecutor Wilhelm Hampelmann, and her defender Franz Lutz. A cautionary tale about the dangers of religious zealotry, the novel recreates the world of early 17
^th
century Germany when sexual repression and religious war were rampant, rigid patriarchy prevailed in church, state, and family – and no one questioned the existence of witches or their master, the Devil.

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Annamarie Beckel at Marguerite's Cave, Harrington Harbour.
Photo by Christopher Lirette.

Annamarie Beckel lives in Kelligrews, Newfoundland. She first worked as an animal behaviourist and science writer, and then for fourteen years as a writer, photographer, and newsletter editor on the Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe reserve, before turning her research skills to historical fiction.
Silence of Stone
is her third novel.