Tidelands / Philippa Gregory.
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TextPublisher: New York : Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2019Copyright date: ©2019Edition: First Atria Books hardcover edition; First Atria Books hardcover editionDescription: 455 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781501187155; 1501187155; 9781501187162; 1501187163Other title: Tide landsSubject(s): Cunning folk -- Fiction | Abused wives -- Fiction | Sexism -- Fiction | Marshes -- Fiction | FICTION / Historical / General | FICTION / Family Life / General | Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Fiction | England, Southern -- FictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction. | Historical fiction. Additional physical formats: Online version:: TidelandsSummary: 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....
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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....
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