Catalogue record
1529075076
The mercies / Kiran Millwood Hargrave.
Publication year: 2021
Language: English
Format: Paperback
Classification: Fiction
Publisher: London : Picador, 2021.
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 9781529075076 (pbk.) :
Notes:
Originally published: 2020.
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 civilised 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.
Description:
341 pages : maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
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