It will be out in paperback on 8 June (USA/Canada) and 10 June (UK/Australia/New Zealand/India) 2021. But something in Livia’s story doesn’t add up and the answers lies across the dark tides in Venice…ĭark Tides was released on 24 November, 2020. She enchants the warehouse family with her sensual carefree warmth, and promises of a new profitable trade selling beautiful statues of marble and bronze to fuel the classical craze among the wealthy landowners. Francisco Book Review) turns from the glamour of the royal courts to tell the story of an ordinary woman, Alinor, living in a dangerous time for a woman to be. Then, a beautiful widow, Livia, arrives from Venice, telling Alinor that her son Rob has drowned and that she needs their help. Meanwhile in New England, Alinor’s brother Ned cannot find justice in the New World, as the king’s revenge stretches across the Atlantic and turns the pioneers against each other and against the American Indians. He has everything to offer: money, land, status – and he believes she has the only thing he cannot buy: his son and heir. A wealthy man waits outside a poor London warehouse to meet with Alinor, the woman he failed twenty-one years before. Tidelands was released on 20 August 2019.Midsummer’s Eve, 1670. 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 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. La saga delle Tidelands di Philippa Gregory (Autore) Marina Deppisch (Traduttore) Sperling & Kupfer, 2022 (2) LIBRO Disp. The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even to the remote Tidelands – the marshy landscape of the south coast.Īlinor, 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 secret ways across the treacherous marshy landscape of the Tidelands. Midsummer’s Eve, 1648, and England is in the grip of. Phillipa Gregory returns with a new book, Dark Tides, the second book in her Fairmile series. The 1 New York Times bestselling author 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. Midsummer’s Eve, 1648, and England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. Tidelands: A Novel (The Fairmile Series, Book 1) by Philippa Gregory (HC/DJ). In a fascinating interview, the queen of historical fiction, Philippa Gregory, discusses her new Restoration era novel, Dark Tides. A dangerous time for a woman to be different.

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