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020			_a9781529005127
037			_cPurchased _nPrism Books,Kadavanthra
041			_aEnglish
082			_aF _bKIR/ME
100			_aKiran Millwood Hargrave
245			_aMERCIES
250			_a1
260			_aLondon _bPan Macmillan _c2020/01/01
300			_g342
500			_aThe Sunday Times Bestseller and BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick 2020 For readers of Circe and The Handmaid’s Tale, Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Mercies is a story about a love that could prove as dangerous as it is powerful. Winter, 1617. The sea around the remote Norwegian island of Vardø is thrown into a reckless storm. A young woman, Maren, watches as the men of the island, out fishing, perish in an instant. Vardø 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 the island to heel. With him travels his young wife, Ursa. In her new home, 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 . . . 'Beautiful and chilling' Madeline Miller, author of Circe 'Took my breath away' Tracy Chevalier, author of Girl with a Pearl Earring
650			_aFiction
650			_aVardø (Norway) -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction.
650			_aNorway--Vardø
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999			_c180350 _d180350