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Author Gregory, Philippa, author

Title Tidelands / Philippa Gregory
Published United Kingdom : Simon & Schuster, 2019
Cammeray, NSW : Simon & Schuster Australia, 2019

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Description 438 pages ; 24 cm
Series Gregory, Philippa. Fairmile ; 01
Summary Midsummer's Eve, 1648, and England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even to 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 superstitious times, Alinor's ambition and determination mark her out from her neighbours. This is the time of witch-mania, and Alinor, a woman without a husband, skilled with herbs, suddenly enriched, arouses envy in her rivals and fear among the villagers, who are ready to take lethal action into their own hands
Analysis UK & IRL historical fiction
UK & IRL romantic fiction
Notes England 1648. A dangerous time for woman to be different...-- On cover
Subject Healers -- Fiction
Salt marshes -- England -- Fiction
Witches -- Fiction
Women -- Social conditions -- 16th century -- Fiction
Civil war -- England -- Fiction
Cunning folk -- Fiction
Abused wives -- Fiction
Sexism -- Fiction
Marshes -- Fiction
Witchcraft -- Fiction
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
Fugitives from justice -- Fiction
Witch hunting -- Fiction
Submerged lands -- Great Britain -- Fiction
SUBJECT England -- Social conditions -- 16th century -- Fiction
Great Britain -- History -- Charles I, 1625-1649 -- Fiction
England, Southern -- Fiction
Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Fiction
Genre/Form Romance fiction.
History.
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Reading nook.
ISBN 9781760851569
9781760851552