![]() ![]() This is the time of witch-mania, and if the villagers discover the truth, they could take matters into their own hands. They have always whispered about the sinister power of Alinor’s beauty, but the secrets they don’t know about her and James are far more damning. ![]() Alinor’s suspicious neighbors are watching each other for any sign that someone might be disloyal to the new parliament, and Alinor’s ambition and determination mark her as a woman who doesn’t follow the rules. The spellbinding Fairmile series continues as the fiercely independent Alinor and her family find themselves entangled in palace intrigue, political upheaval, and life-changing secrets in seventeenth-century England. ![]() ![]() She shows him the secret ways across the treacherous marshy landscape of the Tidelands, not knowing she is leading a spy and an enemy into her life.Įngland is in the grip of a bloody civil war that reaches into the most remote parts of the kingdom. The new historical novel from Philippa Gregory, the Number One bestselling author of Tidelands and Dark Tides. Instead she meets James, a young man on the run. Until she can, she is neither maiden nor wife nor widow, living in a perilous limbo. Tidelands is so richly described, so authentically peopled, that, even more so than in her astonishing royal courts series, Philippa Gregory’s beautifully written, cleverly beguiling twists and turns, and the actions & emotions of people that we KNOW in play, each turn surprised me further. On Midsummer’s Eve, Alinor waits in the church graveyard, hoping to encounter the ghost of her missing husband and thus confirm his death. It's a dangerous time for a woman to be different. ![]()
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