{"product_id":"the-mercies","title":"The Mercies","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOn Christmas Eve, 1617, the sea around the remote Norwegian island of Vardo is thrown into a reckless storm. As Maren Magnusdatter watches, forty fishermen, including her father and brother, are lost to the waves, the menfolk of Vardo wiped out in an instant.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNow the women must fend for themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEighteen months later, a sinister figure arrives. Summoned from Scotland to take control of a place at the edge of the civilized world, Absalom Cornet knows what he needs to do to bring the women of Vardo to heel. With him travels his young wife, Ursa. In Vardo, and in Maren, Ursa finds something she has never seen before: independent women. But Absalom sees only a place untouched by God and flooded with a mighty and terrible evil, one he must root out at all costs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eInspired by the real events of the Vardo storm and the 1621 witch trials, Kiran Millwood Hargrave's\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Mercies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a story about how suspicion can twist its way through a community, and a love that may prove as dangerous as it is powerful.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kiran Millwood Hargrave","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40327720894626,"sku":"9781529075076","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/Untitleddesign_22.png?v=1726403112","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.pro\/products\/the-mercies","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}