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. Philippa Gregory Dark Tides: A Novel (2) (The Fairmile Series) Hardcover Deckle Edge, Novemby Philippa Gregory (Author) 8,541 ratings Book 2 of 3: Fairmile Editors' pick Best Literature & Fiction See all formats and editions Kindle 12.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. This New York Times bestseller from one of the great storytellers of our time (San Francisco Book Review) turns from the glamour of the royal courts.
Suspected of possessing dark secrets in superstitious times, Alinor’s ambition and determination mark her out from her neighbours. TIDELANDS, the New York Times bestselling first book in a new series by Philippa Gregory, is available in paperback next week (FebruWashington Square Press 17). Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified. 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. The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even to the remote Tidelands – the marshy landscape of the south coast.Īlinor, 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. Midsummer’s Eve, 1648, and England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. A dangerous time for a woman to be different.
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