02530nam a2200397 i 4500001000700000003000500007005001700012008004100029015001900070020002800089035001400117036001300131040005400144082001500198100005400213245004400267264003000311264001200341300003200353336002700385336004100412337002900453338002800482520112700510650003601637650004701673650003301720650003001753650004301783651006801826651006101894655003601955942001201991999001902003952011002022286221VCGL20200701144113.0191007s2020 enkb 000 f eng d aGBB9J55422bnb a9781529005103qhardback awb9249603 b6152749x aUKMGBbengerdacUKMGBdOCLCOdOCLCFdNZAUCdWWBK04a823.922231 aHargrave, Kiran Millwood,d1990-eauthor.918360614aThe mercies /cKiran Millwood Hargrave. 1aLondon :bPicador,c2020. 4c©2020. a341 pages :bmaps ;c23 cm. atextbtxt2rdacontent. acartographic imagebcri2rdacontent. aunmediatedbn2rdamedia. avolumebnc2rdacarrier. a"Finnmark, Norway, 1617. Twenty-year-old Maren Magnusdatter stands on the craggy coast, watching the sea break into a sudden and reckless storm. Forty fishermen, including her brother and father, are drowned and left broken on the rocks below. With the menfolk wiped out, the women of the tiny Arctic town of Vardø must fend for themselves.Three years later, a sinister figure arrives. Absalom Cornet comes from Scotland, where he burned witches in the northern isles. He brings with him his young Norwegian wife, Ursa, who is both heady with her husband's authority and terrified by it. In Vardø, and in Maren, Ursa sees something she has never seen before: independent women. But Absalom sees only a place untouched by God, and flooded with a mighty evil.As Maren and Ursa are drawn to one another in ways that surprise them both, the island begins to close in on them, with Absalom's iron rule threatening Vardø's very existence. Inspired by the real events of the Vardø storm and the 1621 witch trials, The Mercies is a story of love, evil, and obsession, set at the edge of civilization. "--Provided by publisher. 0aWomenzNorwayvFiction.9196335 4aInterpersonal attractionvFiction.9114974 4aGood and evilvFiction.9911 4aLesbiansvFiction.910393 4aMan-woman relationshipsvFiction.9742 0aNorwayxSocial life and customsy17th centuryvFiction.9250063 0aVardø (Norway)xHistoryy17th centuryvFiction.9250064 4aHistorical fiction.2gsafd9456 2ddccAF c201417d201417 00102ddc40708AFaHbHcAFd2020-07-30e9g34.39l0oHARGpi2201305r2020-08-05v34.39w2020-07-30yAF