Gregory, Philippa creator author. text Historical fiction. Historical fiction. nyu 2019 2019 First Atria Books hardcover edition. First Atria Books hardcover edition. monographic eng

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455 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm 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.... Philippa Gregory. "Atria fiction original hardcover"--Title page verso. e-uk--- 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 Fiction Gregory, Philippa, author. New York : Atria Books, 2019 First Atria Books hardcover edition. (DLC) 2019008103 9781501187155 1501187155 9781501187162 1501187163 2019005706 190215 20190905122404.0 1086405599