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Tidelands

Gregory, Philippa (author.).

Summary:

Midsummer's Eve, 1648, England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. The struggle reaches to every corner of the kingdom, even the remote Tidelands - the marshy landscape of the south coast. Alinor a descendant of wise women, crushed by poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under the full moon for a ghost who will declare her free from her abusive husband. Instead, she meets James, a young man on the run and shows him the secret ways across the treacherous marsh, not knowing that she is leading disaster into the heart of her life. Suspected of possessing dark secrets in a suspicious country, Alinor's ambition and determination marks her out from her neighbors. But this is the time of witch-mania, when it is dangerous for a woman to be different ...

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781501187155
  • ISBN: 1501187155
  • ISBN: 9781501187162
  • ISBN: 1501187163
  • ISBN: 9781501187179
  • Physical Description: 455 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: First Atria Books hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2019.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Atria fiction original hardcover"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Bibliography.
Subject: Cunning folk Fiction
Abused wives Fiction
Sexism Fiction
Marshes Fiction
FICTION / Historical / General
FICTION / Family Life / General
Great Britain History Civil War, 1642-1649 Fiction
England, Southern Fiction
Genre: Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.

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