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"Every once in a while, a modern day parable, perfectly told, reflects all that could happen in a world gone mad."-Adriana TrigianiFinnmark, Norway, 1617. Twenty-year-old Maren Magnusdatter stands on the craggy coast, watching the sea break into a sudden and reckless storm. Forty fishermen, including her brother and father, are drowned and left broken on the rocks below. With the menfolk wiped out, the women of the tiny Arctic town of Vardø must fend for themselves. Three years later, a sinister figure arrives. Absalom Cornet comes from Scotland, where he burned witches in the northern isles. He brings with him his young Norwegian wife, Ursa, who is both heady with her husband's authority and terrified by it. In Vardø, and in Maren, Ursa sees something she has never seen before: independent women. But Absalom sees only a place untouched by God, and flooded with a mighty evil. As Maren and Ursa are drawn to one another in ways that surprise them...

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Author

Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Publisher

Little, Brown and Company

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780316529259

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction