Tidelands

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<b>ORDER DAWNLANDS, THE STUNNING NEW NOVEL IN THE BELOVED FAIRMILE SERIES BY INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR PHILIPPA GREGORY, OUT NOW.<br><br> 'Gregory is an experienced storyteller and doesn’t let you down. <i>Tidelands</i> is a gripping and intelligent portrait of a woman fighting to survive in a hostile world' </b><i>The Times </i><br><br><i><b>England 1648. A dangerous time for a woman to be different . . .</b></i><br><br> Midsummer’s Eve, 1648, and England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even to the remote Tidelands – the marshy landscape of the south coast. <br><br> 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.<br><br> Suspected of possessing dark secrets in superstitious times, Alinor’s ambition and determination mark her out from her neighbours. This is the time of witch-mania, and Alinor, a woman without a husband, skilled with herbs, suddenly enriched, arouses envy in her rivals and fear among the villagers, who are ready to take lethal action into their own hands. <p><b>‘The first in a planned series . . . The author crafts her material with effortless ease. </b><b>Her grasp of social mores is brilliant, the love story rings true and the research is, as ever, of the highest calibre<i>' </i></b>Elizabeth Buchan,<i> Daily Mail</i></p><b>‘Vivid and beguiling </b>–<b> Philippa Gregory at her best’</b> <i>W</i><i><i>oman &amp; Home</i><br><br><b>'</b><b>A compelling novel that shines a light on the struggles of 17th century women' </b><i>Daily Mirror<br><br> '</i><b>The novel's power lies in Gregory's evocative portrayal of the tidelands and the everyday

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781471185892

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

177 x 111 x 30 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Verlag / Hersteller

Simon & Schuster UK Ltd