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Who is this book for? Readers interested in historical fiction with strong female characters and themes of love and survival.

Topics LoveSurvivalBetrayal
MoodSuspenseful, Melancholic
Female protagonist
RomanceMajor Subplot
ViolenceModerate
Explicit scenesSuggestive Themes
Longlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2021 On Christmas Eve, 1617, the sea around the remote Norwegian island of Vardo is thrown into a reckless storm. As Maren Magnusdatter watches, forty fishermen, including her father and brother, are lost to the waves, the menfolk of Vardo wiped out in an instant. Now the women must fend for themselves. Eighteen months later, a sinister figure arrives. Summoned from Scotland to take control of a place at the edge of the civilized world, Absalom Cornet knows what he needs to do to bring the women of Vardo to heel. With him travels his young wife, Ursa. In Vardo, and in Maren, Ursa finds something she has never seen before: independent women. But Absalom sees only a place untouched by God and flooded with a mighty and terrible evil, one he must root out at all costs. Inspired by the real events of the Vardo storm and the 1621 witch trials, Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Mercies is a story about how suspicion can twist its way through a community, and a love that may prove as dangerous as it is powerful.

Language

en

Published on

07/08/2021

Pages

352

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781529075076

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