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The mercies

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<p><b>The <i>Sunday Times</i> Bestseller and BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick.</b><br><br><b>For readers of <i>Circe</i> and <i>The Handmaids Tale</i>, Kiran Millwood Hargraves <i>The Mercies</i> is a story about a love that could prove as dangerous as it is powerful.</b><br><br>Winter, 1617.

The sea around the remote Norwegian island of Vard is thrown into a reckless storm.

A young woman, Maren, watches as the men of the island, out fishing, perish in an instant.

Vard is now a place of women.<br><br>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 the island to heel.

With him travels his young wife, Ursa. In her new home, and in Maren, Ursa finds something she has never seen before: independent women.

But Absalom sees only a place flooded with a terrible evil, one he must root out at all costs . . .<br><br><b>Beautiful and chilling Madeline Miller, author of <i>Circe</i></b><br><b>Took my breath away Tracy Chevalier, author of <i>Girl with a Pearl Earring</i></b></p>

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Product Details
Picador
1529005124 / 9781529005127
Paperback
823.92
06/02/2020
England
English
Historic novels
256 pages
22 cm