<p>It’s November 1703 and The Great Storm is set to hit Filey Bay on the Yorkshire coast.</p><p>The people of Reighton have a wedding to celebrate, and sit in church unaware of the impending storm that will affect their lives.</p><p>Inspired by parish records, Witch-bottles and Windlestraws is the story of the Jordan family and their farming community. Courtships, betrayal, unrequited love and an inexplicable death are woven into a tapestry of 18th Century life and customs and the ever-challenging weather.</p><p>Characters can turn to the Church for help, or resort to superstition and ancient remedies.</p><p>Through the heat of August’s long harvest days or the hours spent making butter and cheese in the cool of the milkhouse, or through the seemingly never-ending dark winters when the village is cut off by deep snow and ice, life and death are played out in the stark realities of an unforgiving era.</p>
