CAN'T-WAIT WEDNESDAY: I Can't Wait for Tidelands by Philippa Gregory

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Philippa Gregory is famous for her Plantagenet and Tudor novels, of which I've read a few and enjoyed. My introduction to her writing was way back in the 1980s through her Wideacre Trilogy set in Georgian England.

Come August 2019, she will be launching a new series with Tidelands, which sports a very evocative cover, set during the English Civil War. I'm reading more and more novels set in this time period and will definitely be adding Tidelands to my TBR pile.

Synopsis

England 1648. A dangerous time for a woman to be different . . .

Midsummer’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.

Alinor, 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.

Suspected 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.

Release Date: August 20, 2019
Format: Print, ebook and audio
Genre: Historical Adventure