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Tidelands / Philippa Gregory.
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 posessing dark secrets in a suspicious country, Alinor's ambition and determination marks her out from her neighbours. But this is the time of witch-mania, when it is dangerous for a woman to be different....
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- ISBN: 9781501187179
- ISBN: 1501187171
- Physical Description: 1 online resource
- Edition: First Atria Books hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Atria Books, 2019.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Atria fiction original hardcover"--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Intro; Dedication; Tidelands, Sussex, Midsummer Eve, June 1648; Tidelands, Sunday, July 1648; Tidelands, July 1648; Tidelands, August 1648; Tidelands, September 1648; Tidelands, September 1648; Tidelands, October 1648; Douai, France, October 1648; Tidelands, November 1648; Douai, France, November 1648; Tidelands, November 1648; Tidelands, December 1648; London, December 1648; Tidelands, December 1648; The Hague, Netherlands, December 1648; Tidelands, January 1649; London, January 1649; Tidelands, February 1649; London, February 1649; Tidelands, February 1649; Tidelands, February 1649 Author's NoteReading Group Guide; Gardens for the Gambia; About the Author; Copyright |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
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| Subject: | Great Britain > History > Civil War, 1642-1649 > Fiction. Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. FICTION / Family Life / General. Civil War (Great Britain : 1642-1649) Great Britain. |
| Genre: | Electronic books. Electronic books. Fiction. History. Historical fiction. |
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- Baker & Taylor
In a tale set during Englandâs mid-17th-century civil war, an herbalist seeking to escape an abusive relationship is targeted by witchcraft mania in her tidelands community. By the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Other Boleyn Girl. 250,000 first printing. - Baker & Taylor
During England's seventeenth-century civil war, Alinor, a woman without a husband and skilled with herbs, helps a young man on the run and unwittingly brings disaster into the heart of her life. - Baker & Taylor
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 posessing dark secrets in a suspicious country, Alinor's ambition and determination marks her out from her neighbours. But this is the time of witch-mania, when it is dangerous for a woman to be different.... - Simon and Schuster
This New York Times bestseller from âone of the great storytellers of our timeâ (San Francisco Book Review) turns from the glamour of the royal courts to tell the story of an ordinary woman, Alinor, living in a dangerous time for a woman to be different.
A country at war
A king beheaded
A woman with a dangerous secret
On Midsummerâs Eve, Alinor waits in the church graveyard, hoping to encounter the ghost of her missing husband and thus confirm his death. Until she can, she is neither maiden nor wife nor widow, living in a perilous limbo. Instead she meets James, a young man on the run. She shows him the secret ways across the treacherous marshy landscape of the Tidelands, not knowing she is leading a spy and an enemy into her life.
England is in the grip of a bloody civil war that reaches into the most remote parts of the kingdom. Alinorâs suspicious neighbors are watching each other for any sign that someone might be disloyal to the new parliament, and Alinorâs ambition and determination mark her as a woman who doesnât follow the rules. They have always whispered about the sinister power of Alinorâs beauty, but the secrets they donât know about her and James are far more damning. This is the time of witch-mania, and if the villagers discover the truth, they could take matters into their own hands.
âThis is Gregory par excellenceâ (Kirkus Reviews). âFans of Gregoryâs works and of historicals in general will delight in this page-turning taleâ (Library Journal, starred review) that is âsuperb… A searing portrait of a woman that resonates across the agesâ (People).
