Her debut YA novel The Deathless Girls was published in 2019, and was shortlisted for the YA Book Prize, and long listed for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. Julia and the Shark, in collaboration with her husband, artist Tom de Freston, was Indie Book of the Month, Scottish Booktrust Book of the Month, and has been shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year 2021. A Secret of Birds & Bone, her fourth middle grade title, was published in 2020. Her books include the bestselling winner of the British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2017 The Girl of Ink & Stars, and Costa Book Awards- and Blue Peter Awards-shortlisted The Island at the End of Everything, and The Way Past Winter, Blackwell's Children's Book of the Year 2018. Kiran Millwood Hargrave is an award winning poet, playwright, and novelist. A haunting ode to self-reliant and quietly defiant women." (Douglas Stuart, Booker Prize winning author of Shuggie Bain) It's a beautifully intimate story of friendship, love and hope.
It totally swept me away to Vardø, where grief struck islanders stand tall in the shadow of religious persecution and witch burnings. " The Mercies has a pull as sure as the tide. Cornet brings with him the threat of danger-and a pretty, young Norwegian wife named Ursa.Īs Maren and Ursa are drawn to one another in ways that surprise them both, the island begins to close in on them, with Absalom's iron rule threatening Vardø's very existence. But the foundation of this new feminine frontier begins to crack with the arrival of Absalom Cornet, a man sent from Scotland to root out alleged witchcraft. They fish, hunt, and butcher reindeer-which they never did while the men were alive.
All forty of the village’s men were at sea, including Maren’s father and brother, and all forty are drowned in the otherworldly disaster.įor the women left behind, survival means defying the strict rules of the island. Twenty-year-old Maren Magnusdatter stands on the craggy coast, watching the skies break into a sudden and reckless storm. When the women take over, is it sorcery or power?įinnmark, Norway, 1617. Beautiful and chilling" (Madeline Miller, bestselling author of Circe). The women in an Arctic village must survive a sinister threat after all the men are wiped out by a catastrophic storm in this "gripping novel inspired by a real-life witch hunt.
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