{"product_id":"used-tidelands","title":"Used - Tidelands","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEngland 1648. A dangerous time for a woman to be different . . .\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMidsummer’s Eve, 1648, and England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even to the remote Tidelands – the marshy landscape of the south coast. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlinor, a descendant of wise women, crushed by poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under the full moon for a ghost who will declare her free from her abusive husband. Instead she meets James, a young man on the run, and shows him the secret ways across the treacherous marsh, not knowing that she is leading disaster into the heart of her life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSuspected of possessing dark secrets in superstitious times, Alinor’s ambition and determination mark her out from her neighbours. This is the time of witch-mania, and Alinor, a woman without a husband, skilled with herbs, suddenly enriched, arouses envy in her rivals and fear among the villagers, who are ready to take lethal action into their own hands.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Publish Date - 08\/20\/19 - Used Hardcover","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54368951828790,"sku":null,"price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0762\/8714\/8342\/files\/IMG-5786.heic?v=1785863935","url":"https:\/\/thenandnowbookshop.com\/products\/used-tidelands","provider":"Then \u0026 Now Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}