![]() ![]() This is the first book in The Fairmile Series, and I can't wait to see what happens next for Alinor and her descendants. This is the time of witch-mania, and Alinor, a woman without a husband, skilled with herbs, suddenly enriched, arouses envy in her rivals and fear among the villagers, who are ready to take lethal action into their own hands.Praise for Tidelands: ‘Utterly Gripping. ![]() Suspected of possessing dark secrets in superstitious times, Alinor's ambition and determination mark her out from her neighbours. 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. 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. The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even to the remote Tidelands - the marshy landscape of the south coast. ![]() Midsummer's Eve, 1648, and England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. A dangerous time for a woman to be different. ![]()
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