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The bestselling Richard and Judy Book Club pick and BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick.
For readers of Circe and The Handmaid’s Tale, Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Mercies is inspired by real historical events – a story about the strength and courage of women.
‘Dark, dramatic and full of danger’ - Daily Mail
The storm comes in like a finger snap . . .
1617. The sea around the remote Norwegian island of Vardø is thrown into a vicious storm. A young woman, Maren, watches as the men of the island, out fishing, perish in an instant.
Vardø is now a place of women . . .
Eighteen months later, a sinister figure arrives. Absalom Cornet has been summoned to bring the women of the island to heel. With him travels his young wife, Ursa. In her new home, and in Maren, Ursa encounters something she has never seen before: independent women. But where Ursa finds happiness, even love, Absalom sees only a place flooded with a terrible evil, one he must root out at all costs . . .
A story about how suspicion can twist its way through a community, about a love that could prove as dangerous as it is powerful.
‘Gripping’ - Madeline Miller, author of Circe
‘Took my breath away’ - Tracy Chevalier, author of Girl With a Pearl Earring
‘A beautifully intimate story of friendship, love and hope’ - Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain
‘Something rare and beautiful’ - Marian Keyes, author of Again, Rachel
‘Chilling and page-turning’ - The Times
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A couple points felt slightly modern, but that's a personal opinion--I learned about a lot of everyday, historical living from women's perspectives, which I really appreciate. Little details like cleaning, preparing food, etc.
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I would like to hear more from Sami/Saami people about what they think about the portrayal in this book. One plotline follows the distrust of indigenous people, particularly women, and has a framing from a mostly white European perspective. However, there are several viewpoints discussed and portrayed from different women and men, which feels more honest than other recent books I have read that address colonization. On the other hand, I do not think we hear directly from the indigenous person herself. This may be the author's deliberate choice, as this character's motivations and parts of her knowledge are ultimately unknowable for the white Europeans. She makes distinctly different choices compared to the others, and this seems to come from both her knowledge of the land and her spiritual practice (mostly hidden) and her lived experience as an outsider who also lives in the village.
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