An intriguing, haunting novel pulsing with raw, beautiful emotion.
Set in an era of superstition, hysteria, and extraordinary change, and inspired by true events, The Dance Tree i s an impassioned story of family secrets, forbidden love, and women pushed to the edge.. . . .
Like the women of Strasbourg, she too, is dancing to a dangerous tune.
As the city buckles under the beat of a thousand feet, Lisbet becomes caught in a dangerous web of deceit and clandestine passion.
It is a secret Lisbet is determined to uncover.
Nethe has been away for seven years, serving a penance in the mountains for a crime no one will name.
Though Lisbet is removed from the frenzy of the dancing plague afflicting the city\'s women, her own quiet life is upended by the arrival of her sister-in-law.
Outside the city, pregnant Lisbet lives with her husband and mother-in-law, tending the bees that are the family\'s livelihood.
She dances for days without pause or rest, and when hundreds of other women join her, the men running the city declare a state of emergency and hire musicians to play the Devil out of the mob.
In the midst of a blisteringly hot summer, a lone woman begins to Dance in the city square.
Strasbourg, 1518.
An exceptionally beautiful portrait of women from the past, told in the most spellbinding prose.--Elodie Harper, author of the #1 London Times b estseller The Wolf Den In this gripping historical novel, the internationally bestselling author of The Mercies weaves a spellbinding tale of fear, transformation, courage, and love in sixteenth-century France. . .
Kiran Millwood-Hargrave effortlessly intertwines the stories of women tenderly and sympathetically, creating a novel in which female courage and resilience shines brightly against a brilliantly evoked backdrop of claustrophobic horror.--Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne Some historical novels don\'\' just describe the past, they transport you there .
An intriguing, haunting novel pulsing with raw, beautiful emotion
