02136cam a2200373 i 4500 412295115 TxAuBib 20200125120000.0 200128t20202019||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019956201 9780316529259 HRD 27.00 0316529257 HRD 27.00 (OCoLC)1137603720 TxAuBib rda Hargrave, Kiran Millwood. The mercies : a novel / Kiran Millwood Hargrave. First edition. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020. ©2019. 345 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Finnmark, Norway, 1617. Twenty-year-old Maren Magnusdatter stands on the craggy coast, watching the sea break into a sudden and reckless storm 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 Vard©ı must fend for themselves. Three years later, a stranger arrives on their shore. 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 Vard©ı, 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 Vard©ı's very existence"-- Provided by publisher. 20200130. jz. Women Norway Vard©ı Fiction. Witch hunting Norway Vard©ı Fiction. Female friendship Fiction. Scots Norway Vard©ı Fiction. Suspicion Fiction. Storms Fiction. Historical fiction.