TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gregory,Philippa
TI  - Tidelands
SN  - 9781501187155
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York
PB  - Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
KW  - Cunning folk
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Abused wives
KW  - Sexism
KW  - Marshes
KW  - FICTION / Historical / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - FICTION / Family Life / General
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - Civil War, 1642-1649
KW  - England, Southern
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - lcgft
N1  - "Atria fiction original hardcover"--Title page verso
N2  - 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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