TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gregory, Philippa,
TI  - Tidelands
T2  - The Fairmile
SN  - 9781760851569
U1  - 823.92 23
PY  - 2019///.
CY  - London, England : 
PB  - Simon & Schuster, 
KW  - Submerged lands
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Fugitives from justice
KW  - Witches
KW  - Witch hunting
KW  - Women
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 16th century
KW  - Superstition
KW  - Escapes
KW  - Interpersonal relations
KW  - Salt marshes
KW  - England
KW  - Civil war
KW  - Abused wives
KW  - Sexism
KW  - History Civil War
KW  - Civil War, 1642-1649
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
N2  - "Midsummer's Eve, 1648, and England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even to 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 possessing dark secrets in superstitious times, Alinor's ambition and determination mark her out from her neighbours. 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."--Provided by publisher
ER  -