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020			_a9781529005127 (paperback)
040			_aBLR _erda
082	0	4	_223 _a823.92 HAR _b018614
100	1	0	_aHargrave, Kiran Millwood, _d1990-
245	1	4	_aThe mercies : _ba novel / _cKiran Millwood Hargrave.
264		1	_aLondon : _bPicador, _cc2020.
300			_a341 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c23 cm
336			_2rdacontent _atext _btxt
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated _bn
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume _bnc
520			_aInspired by the real events of the Vardo storm, The Mercies is a story about how suspicion can twist its way through a community, and a love that may prove as dangerous as it is powerful. 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. Vardo is now a place of women. Eighteen months later, a sinister figure arrives. Summoned from Scotland to take control of a place at the edge of the civilized 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 flooded with a terrible evil, one he must root out at all costs ..
650		0	_aWitch hunting.
650		0	_aGood and evil _vFiction.
650		0	_aPersecutions Novels, short stories, etc.
650		0	_aLife change events.
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