'A gripping novel inspired by a real-life witch hunt. '.the author has created a world completely immersive and convincing' - The Telegraph Publisher: Pan Macmillan ISBN: 9781529075076 Number of pages: 352 Weight: 255 g Dimensions: 197 x 130 x 21 mm MEDIA REVIEWS Inspired by the real events of the Vardo storm and the 1621 witch trials, Kiran Millwood Hargrave's 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. But Absalom sees only a place untouched by God and flooded with a mighty and terrible evil, one he must root out at all costs. In Vardo, and in Maren, Ursa finds something she has never seen before: independent women. 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. 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.Įighteen months later, a sinister figure arrives. On Christmas Eve, 1617, the sea around the remote Norwegian island of Vardo is thrown into a reckless storm.
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