Tidelands
(2019)

Fiction

Book

Call Numbers:
FICTION/GREGORY,P

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Fiction FICTION/GREGORY,P Available
Fiction FICTION/GREGORY,P Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Atria Books, 2019
EDITION
First Atria Books hardcover edition
DESCRIPTION

455 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781501187155, 1501187155, 9781501187162, 1501187163, 9781501187155
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"Atria fiction original hardcover"--Title page verso

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