The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter: The Continuing Adventures of Judith ShakespeareFor readers of Hilary Mantel and Madeline Miller, a deeply engrossing work of historical fictiona tale of a woman of the Shakespeare family struggling to manage both her private grief and public danger. At the age of sixty one, Judith Shakespeare, a midwife apothecary and twin of the long dead Hamnet, must flee provincial Stratford on horseback to avoid arrest for witchcraft. Her traveling companions are a zealous Puritan woman and child who have been