Historical events are written with breathless immediacy, keeping the reader enthralled even if they know the outcome. 'Philippa Gregory returns with an English Civil War novel that excels in everything she does best.

' The novel's power lies in Gregory's evocative portrayal of the tidelands and the everyday lives of those who are bound to them' Sunday Express ' A compelling novel that shines a light on the struggles of 17th century women' Daily Mirror ‘Vivid and beguiling – Philippa Gregory at her best’ w oman&home Her grasp of social mores is brilliant, the love story rings true and the research is, as ever, of the highest calibre ' Elizabeth Buchan, Daily Mail The author crafts her material with effortless ease. 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. Suspected of possessing dark secrets in superstitious times, Alinor’s ambition and determination mark her out from her neighbours. 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. The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even to the remote Tidelands – the marshy landscape of the south coast.Īlinor, 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. Midsummer’s Eve, 1648, and England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. A dangerous time for a woman to be different. THE BRAND NEW SERIES FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHORĮngland 1648.

Tidelands is a gripping and intelligent portrait of a woman fighting to survive in a hostile world' THE TIMES 'Gregory is an experienced storyteller and doesn’t let you down. **PRE-ORDER DAWNLANDS, THE STUNNING NEW NOVEL FROM PHILIPPA GREGORY, OUT NOVEMBER 2022**

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