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Author Gregory, Philippa, author.

Title Tidelands [large print] / Philippa Gregory.

Publication Info. Farmington Hills, Mich : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2019.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Large Print  LP F Gregory    ---  Available
Description 675 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Physical Medium large print rda
Series Fairmile ; [Book 1]
Gregory, Philippa. Fairmile ; bk. 1.
Summary 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 possessing dark secrets in a suspicious country, Alinor's ambition and determination marks her out from her neighbors. But this is the time of witch-mania, when it is dangerous for a woman to be different....
Subject Cunning folk -- Fiction.
Abused wives -- Fiction.
Sexism -- Fiction.
Marshes -- Fiction.
Large type books.
Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Fiction.
England, Southern -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Historical fiction.
Historical fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726640
ISBN 9781432868741 (lg print)
1432868748 (lg. print)

 
    
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