01764cam a2200289 4500 553018730 TxAuBib 20190821120000.0 190215|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019005706 9781501187155 1501187155 9781501187162 1501187163 (OCoLC)1086405599 DLC eng rda DLC JSE OCLCO MJ8 OCLCO JDP TxAuBib Gregory, Philippa. Tidelands / Philippa Gregory. First Atria Books hardcover edition. 455 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. "Atria fiction original hardcover"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references and index. Midsummer's Eve, 1648, England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. The struggle reaches to every corner of the kingdom, even the remote Tidelands - the marshy landscape of the south coast. Alinor a descendant of wise women, crushed by 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 posessing dark secrets in a suspicious country, Alinor's ambition and determination marks her out from her neighbours. But this is the time of witch-mania, when it is dangerous for a woman to be different.... 20190821. Great Britain History Civil War, 1642-1649 Fiction. Historical fiction. lcgft