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020			_a9781529075076
043			_aen_UK
041			_aeng
245		4	_aThe Mercies
260			_a _bPicador, _c2021
300			_a341 pages ; 20 cm
520			_aFinnmark, Norway, 1617. Twenty-year-old Maren Magnusdatter stands on the craggy coast, watching the sea break into a sudden and reckless storm. Forty fishermen, including her brother and father, are drowned and left broken on the rocks below. With the menfolk wiped out, the women of the tiny Arctic town of Vardø must fend for themselves. Three years later, a stranger arrives on their shore. Absalom Cornet comes from Scotland, where he burned witches in the northern isles. He brings with him his young Norwegian wife, Ursa, who is both heady with her husband's authority and terrified by it. In Vardø, and in Maren, Ursa sees something she has never seen before: independent women. But Absalom sees only a place untouched by God, and flooded with a mighty evil. As Maren and Ursa are drawn to one another in ways that surprise them both, the island begins to close in on them, with Absalom's iron rule threatening Vardø's very existence. Inspired by the real events of the Vardø storm and the 1621 witch trials, The Mercies is a story of love, evil, and obsession, set at the edge of civilization.
630			_aP-EN _97841
650			_aTrials (Witchcraft) _914271
650			_aNorway _914272
650			_aWitch hunting _914273
650		0	_aLife change events _913838
650			_aWidows _914275
650			_aFinnmark fylke (Norway) _914276
650			_aHistory _914277
650			_a17th century _914278
700			_aMillwood Hargrave, Kiran _eAutor _914279
902			_a1660
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912			_a2021-01-01
942			_a1
953			_d2022-11-21 16:11:42
999			_c3319 _d3319
655			_aNovels
653			_aREADING IN ENGLISH