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Tidelands / Philippa Gregory.

Summary:

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 posessing dark secrets in a suspicious country, Alinor's ambition and determination marks her out from her neighbours. But this is the time of witch-mania, when it is dangerous for a woman to be different....

Record details

ISBN: 9781501187179
ISBN: 1501187171
Physical Description: 1 online resource
Edition: First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York : Atria Books, 2019.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"Atria fiction original hardcover"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Intro; Dedication; Tidelands, Sussex, Midsummer Eve, June 1648; Tidelands, Sunday, July 1648; Tidelands, July 1648; Tidelands, August 1648; Tidelands, September 1648; Tidelands, September 1648; Tidelands, October 1648; Douai, France, October 1648; Tidelands, November 1648; Douai, France, November 1648; Tidelands, November 1648; Tidelands, December 1648; London, December 1648; Tidelands, December 1648; The Hague, Netherlands, December 1648; Tidelands, January 1649; London, January 1649; Tidelands, February 1649; London, February 1649; Tidelands, February 1649; Tidelands, February 1649 Author's NoteReading Group Guide; Gardens for the Gambia; About the Author; Copyright
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.