{"product_id":"tidelands-philippa-gregory","title":"Tidelands - Philippa Gregory","description":"\u003ch3 class=\"Text Text__title3 Text__italic Text__regular Text__subdued\" aria-label=\"Book 1 in the The Fairmile series\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/series\/257252-the-fairmile\" aria-label=\"Book 1 in the The Fairmile series\"\u003eThe Fairmile\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e#1\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe #1\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebestselling author and \"one of the great storytellers of our time\" (\u003ci\u003eSan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrancisco Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMidsummer's Eve, 1648, England is in the grip of a civil war between renegade king and rebellious parliament. The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even the remote tidelands --the marshy landscape of the south coast.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlinor, 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. 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSuspected of possessing dark secrets in superstitious times, Alinor's ambition and determination mark her out from her neighbors. 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt is dangerous for a woman to be different.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brewberry Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42043878899806,"sku":null,"price":6.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0631\/0585\/9678\/files\/tidelines.jpg?v=1758253779","url":"https:\/\/www.brewberrybooks.ca\/products\/tidelands-philippa-gregory","provider":"Brewberry Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}