01991cam a2200385 i 4500 392238426 TxAuBib 20190919120000.0 190215s2019||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 2019005706 9781432868741 1432868748 (OCoLC)1102811664 TxAuBib rda Gregory, Philippa. Tidelands [text (large print)] / Philippa Gregory. Large print edition. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2019. 675 pages ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "A novel" -- Cover. Midsummer's Eve, 1648, England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. The struggle reaches to every corner of the kingdom, even 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 posessing dark secrets in a suspicious country, Alinor's ambition and determination marks her out from her neighbours. But this is the time of witch-mania, when it is dangerous for a woman to be different.... 20190919. Cunning folk Fiction. Abused wives Fiction. Sexism Fiction. Marshes Fiction. Large type books. Great Britain History Civil War, 1642-1649 Fiction. England, Southern Fiction. Historical fiction. CLMPL