The Sunday Times Bestseller and BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick 2020.
For readers of Circe and The Handmaid\'s Tale, Kiran Millwood Hargrave\'s The Mercies is a story about a love that could prove as dangerous as it is powerful.
Winter, 1617. .\'Beautiful and chilling\' - Madeline Miller, author of Circe\'Took my breath away\' - Tracy Chevalier, author of Girl with a Pearl Earring. .
But Absalom sees only a place flooded with a terrible evil, one he must root out at all costs .
In her new home, and in Maren, Ursa finds something she has never seen before: independent women.
With him travels his young wife, Ursa.
Summoned from Scotland to take control of a place at the edge of the civilized world, Absalom Cornet knows what he needs to do to bring the women of the island to heel.
Vardo is now a place of women.
Eighteen months later, a sinister figure arrives.
A young woman, Maren, watches as the men of the island, out fishing, perish in an instant.
The sea around the remote Norwegian island of Vardo is thrown into a reckless storm.
The Sunday Times Bestseller and BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick 2020.
For readers of Circe and The Handmaid\'s Tale, Kiran Millwood Hargrave\'s The Mercies is a story about a love that could prove as dangerous as it is powerful.
Winter, 1617
