![]() ![]() This is the time of witch-mania, and Alinor, a woman without a husband, skilled with herbs, suddenly enriched, arouses envy in her rivals and fear among the villagers, who are ready to take lethal action into their own hands. Suspected of possessing dark secrets in superstitious times, Alinor’s ambition and determination mark her out from her neighbours. ![]() 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. 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. The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even to the remote Tidelands – the marshy landscape of the south coast. ![]() Midsummer’s Eve, 1648, and England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. A dangerous time for a woman to be different. The Brand New Series From The Sunday Times Number One Bestselling Author England 1648. Dark Tides, the sequel to Tidelands, by Philippa Gregory was a great follow up in the Fairmile series I just really love her writing and the way she can. ![]()
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