Tidelands av Philippa Gregory

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<B> 'Gregory is an experienced storyteller and doesn’t let you down. <I>Tidelands</I> is a gripping and intelligent portrait of a woman fighting to survive in a hostile world' </B><I>THE TIMES</I><BR/><BR/><B>THE BRAND NEW SERIES FROM THE <I>SUNDAY TIMES</I> NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR</B><BR/> <BR/><B>England 1648. A dangerous time for a woman to be different . . .</B><BR/><BR/> Midsummer’s Eve, 1648, and England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament.  The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even to the remote Tidelands – the marshy landscape of the south coast. <BR/><BR/> 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