Books Details
Author : Philippa Gregory Pages : 480 pages Publisher : Washington Square
Press Language : eng ISBN-10 : 1501187163 ISBN-13 : 9781501187162
Books Descriptions
The #1 New York Times bestselling author and "one of the great
storytellers of our time" (San Francisco Book Review) turns from the
glamour of the royal courts to tell the story of an ordinary woman, Alinor,
who cannot bear to conform to the life that lies before her.Midsummer's
Eve, 1648, England is in the grip of a civil war between renegade king and
rebellious parliament. The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom,
even the remote tidelands --the marshy landscape of the south
coast.Alinor, a descendant of wisewomen, trapped in 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 neighbors.
This is the
