Tidelands - Philippa Gregory

Tidelands

By Philippa Gregory

  • Release Date: 2019-08-20
  • Genre: Historical Fiction
Score: 4
4
From 630 Ratings

Description

This New York Times bestseller from “one of the great storytellers of our time” (San 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 different.

A country at war
A king beheaded
A woman with a dangerous secret


On Midsummer’s Eve, Alinor waits in the church graveyard, hoping to encounter the ghost of her missing husband and thus confirm his death. Until she can, she is neither maiden nor wife nor widow, living in a perilous limbo. Instead she meets James, a young man on the run. She shows him the secret ways across the treacherous marshy landscape of the Tidelands, not knowing she is leading a spy and an enemy into her life.

England is in the grip of a bloody civil war that reaches into the most remote parts of the kingdom. Alinor’s suspicious neighbors are watching each other for any sign that someone might be disloyal to the new parliament, and Alinor’s ambition and determination mark her as a woman who doesn’t follow the rules. They have always whispered about the sinister power of Alinor’s beauty, but the secrets they don’t know about her and James are far more damning. This is the time of witch-mania, and if the villagers discover the truth, they could take matters into their own hands.

“This is Gregory par excellence” (Kirkus Reviews). “Fans of Gregory’s works and of historicals in general will delight in this page-turning tale” (Library Journal, starred review) that is “superb… A searing portrait of a woman that resonates across the ages” (People).

Reviews

  • Disappointing

    2
    By JthWN
    Slow and agonizing. Repetitive and annoying.
  • Gripping story

    5
    By kthlnbkr
    Just like all the other Gregory tales- this did not disappoint!
  • Riveting

    5
    By mrsreadsalot
    The end! Quiet but riveting book that builds up the drama and then gets you at the end! Wow! Not only an incredible story but to think that’s what life was like for women back then....can’t wait to read more of her books!