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The mercies : a novel / Kiran Millwood Hargrave.

ISBN: 9780316529259 (hardcover)
Physical Description: 345 pages ; 25 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020.
Copyright: &copy;2019

Hargrave, Kiran Millwood, 1990- (author.).

Summary:

On Christmas Eve, 1617, the sea around the remote Norwegian island of Vardø is thrown into a reckless storm. As Maren Magnusdatter watches, forty fishermen, including her father and brother, are lost to the waves-- the menfolk of Vardø wiped out in an instant. Vardø is now a place of women. Eighteen months later, a sinister figure arrives. 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 Vardø to heel. With him travels his young wife, Ursa. In Vardø, and in Maren, Ursa finds something she has never seen before: independent women. But Absalom sees only a place flooded with a terrible evil, one he must root out at all costs ...