“She has secret skills I do not possess, but she’s more preoccupied with her work, more in denial about her life.” “Connie is sort of like my best and worst self,” Howe says. Howe was in graduate school when she wrote The Physick Book now, both she and her character are enmeshed in their careers and family lives. In The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs, her third adult historical novel, Howe revisits Goodwin, a Harvard grad student turned professor, as she is pulled into a mystery involving the Salem witch trials and her own family tree.Īs it happens, Connie’s life has paralleled her author’s. It’s been a decade since Katherine Howe spent time with Connie Goodwin, the heroine of her New York Times–bestselling debut historical novel, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane.
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