The day Queen Mary Tudor - or ‘Bloody Mary’, as she’s called, because she has anyone who doesn’t go to church burned - came to town was the most terrifying day of young Meg’s life. Everyone wants to impress Her Majesty, and what better way to show their devotion than by burning a witch themselves. But the witch , Old Nan is more clever and cunning than the townspeople and in the end, she isn’t the one who sparks the ferocious temper of the frightful Queen …

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