Mandragora

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Mandragora by David McRobbie is a contemporary novel which deals with the sinking of a sailing ship. Dunarling. Adam Hardy and Catriona Chisholm accidentally find a cache of five small dolls made from mandrake roots. The dolls were left in the cave a hundred years earlier by two other teenagers, Jamie and Margaret, who had survived the wreck of the Dunarling.
Transcribing a diary from that same fatal voyage, Adam and Catriona learn of the cursed mandrake roots, whose power destroyed the Dunarling in 1886. It seems the curses are working again in the town of Dunarling today.