The Mercies

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The bestselling Richard and Judy Book Club pick The Sunday Times Bestseller and BBC Radio 2 Book Club PickDark, dramatic and full of danger' - Daily Mail The storm comes in like a finger snap . . . 1617. The sea around the remote Norwegian island of Vard¸ is thrown into a vicious storm. A young woman, Maren, watches as the men of the island, out fishing, perish in an instant. Vard¸ is now a place of women . . . Eighteen months later, a sinister figure arrives. Absalom Cornet has been summoned to bring the women of the island to heel. With him travels his young wife, Ursa. In her new home, and in Maren, Ursa encounters something she has never seen before: independent women. But where Ursa finds happiness, even love, Absalom sees only a place flooded with a terrible evil, one he must root out at all costs . . . For readers of Circe and The Handmaid's Tale, Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Mercies is inspired by real historical events. It is a story about how suspicion can twist its way through a community, about a love that could prove as dangerous as it is powerful. Chilling and page-turning' - The TimesGripping' - Madeline MillerTook my breath away' - Tracy ChevalierA beautifully intimate story of friendship, love and hope' - Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain Something rare and beautiful' - Marian Keyes

Kiran Millwood Hargrave (b.199) is an award-winning poet, playwright, and novelist. The Mercies was her first novel for adults, and became an instant Sunday Times bestseller. It won a Betty Trask Award, was longlisted for the Jhalak Prize and was named amongst the NYT 1 Most Notable Books of 22. Her bestselling works for children include The Girl of Ink & Stars and have won or been short and long-listed for numerous awards including the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, the British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year, Costa Children's Book Award, the Blue Peter Best Story Award and, twice, the CILIP Carnegie Medal. Kiran lives in Oxford with her husband, the artist Tom de Freston, and their rescue cats, Luna and Marly.

Kiran Millwood Hargrave

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