She lives near the water, but she fears it. And living in the tidelands, it’s nearly impossible to have any sort of success and comfort in life without being married.Īlinor is close to the earth. Without knowing for certain if he is dead or not, Alinor is not quite a widow, but she’s not quite a married woman either. Her husband has been gone for nearly a year, a fisherman that left on their boat one day and never came back.

I could not put it down.Īlinor Reekie is a midwife and herbalist, like her mother and grandmother before her. My intention was to pick Tidelands up and read it slowly, but I devoured it. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

It is dangerous for a woman to be different. 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. Suspected of possessing dark secrets in superstitious times, Alinor's ambition and determination mark her out from her neighbors. 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. The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even the remote tidelands -the marshy landscape of the south coast.Īlinor, a descendant of wisewomen, trapped in poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under the full moon for a ghost who will declare her free from her abusive husband. Midsummer's Eve, 1648, England is in the grip of a civil war between renegade king and rebellious parliament. The #1 New York Times bestselling author and 'one of the great storytellers of our time' ( San Francisco Book Review) turns from the glamour of the royal courts to tell the story of an ordinary woman, Alinor, who cannot bear to conform to the life that lies before her. Published by Atria Books on February 18, 2020īuy from Amazon| Buy from Barnes & Noble| Buy from Book Depository

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