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Tidelands : Fairmile  Cover Image Book Book

Tidelands : Fairmile / Philippa Gregory.

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
  • 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.
Subject: Herbalists > Fiction.
Women > Social conditions > 17th century > Fiction.
Civil war > England > Fiction.
Witch hunting > Fiction.
Marshes > England > Fiction.
Cunning folk > Fiction.
Abused wives > Fiction.
Sexism > Fiction.
Marshes > Fiction.
Great Britain > History > Civil War, 1642-1649 > Fiction.
England > Social conditions > 17th century > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.
Novels.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at scottsboropl.

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scottsboropl F Gre 32269001131377 Adult - Fiction Available -

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