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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: 9781508281115
- ISBN: 1508281114
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 sound file)
- Publisher: New York : Atria Books, 2019.
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| General Note: | "Atria fiction original hardcover"--Title page verso. Electronic audio file. |
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- AudioFile Reviews : AudioFile Reviews 2019 September
A new series from Philippa Gregory is always a chance to do a happy dance. Louise Brealey's exceptional narration gives this title the life it deserves. In 1648, after his defeat in England's Civil War, King Charles is exiled to the Isle of Wight. Superstition and religious persecution permeate the tiny town and desolate tidelands of the region. One of the inhabitants is wise woman, herbalist, and midwife Alinor, whose husband, a fisherman, is missing. Looking for a spiritual sign, she goes to a cemetery, where she encounters James, a disguised Catholic priest. It proves to be a life-altering meeting. Brealey makes each of Gregory's incredibly detailed moments believable--from the treacherous tides and deadly intrigues to the dangers of just being human. S.J.H. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine - Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2019 November #1
Far from the tumult of 17th Century England's warring, Alinor lives in the Sussex marshes known as the Tidelands. A midwife and herbalist, she is raising two children alone when she meets a handsome English priest sent from Catholic France to play a part in an attempt to bring the doomed Charles I back to power. With much moral agonizing along the lines of The Thorn Birds in a similarly evocative setting, the two fall in love with near-disastrous repercussions. Brealey deftly captures the voices of the huge cast of female characters. While her Alinor seems somewhat detached from the drama around her, Alinor's lack of affect is more than made up for by her feisty, resourceful daughter Alys, and by the suspicious, shrewish Mrs. Miller. Male voices are generally strong and convincing with a range of ages and backgrounds depicted well, with James, the lovestruck priest, as a disappointingly weak exception. This is the first book in the Fairmire series, with more drama to come from the cast of independent women. Copyright 2019 Booklist Reviews.
