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Tidelands / 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 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....

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781432868741
  • Physical Description: 675 pages ; 23 cm.
  • Edition: Large print edition.
  • Publisher: Farmington Hills, Michigan : Gale, 2019.
Subject: Cunning folk > Fiction.
Abused wives > Fiction.
Marshes > Fiction.
Suspicion > Fiction.
Persecution > Fiction.
Secrecy > Fiction.
Mothers and daughters > Fiction.
Large type books.
Great Britain > History > Civil War, 1642-1649 > Fiction.
Great Britain > Social conditions > 17th century > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.

Available copies

  • 3 of 5 copies available at Sitka.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 5 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Holdable? Status Due Date
Bren Del Win Centennial Library W LP Gregory (Text) 36320000368522 Waskada Large Print Volume hold In process -
Louise Public Library LP GRE (Text) 36761000116827 Large Print Volume hold In transit -
Gilbert Plains LP F GRE (Text) 35419002906726 Large Print Volume hold Available -
Morden Library LP F Gre v.1 (Text) 35864002550216 Large Print Volume hold Available -
Trail and District Public Library Main Branch F GRE (Text) 35110001003991 Adult Large Print Fiction Volume hold Available -


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