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    "description": "<p>'A gripping novel . . . Beautiful and chilling' Madeline Miller, author of Circe On Christmas Eve, 1617, the sea around the remote Norwegian island of Vard&oslash; 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 Vard&oslash; wiped out in an instant. Now the women must fend for themselves. Eighteen 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 Vard&oslash; to heel. With him travels his young wife, Ursa. In Vard&oslash;, 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. Inspired by the real events of the Vard&oslash; storm and the 1621 witch trials, Kiran Millwood Hargrave&rsquo;s The Mercies is a story about how suspicion can twist its way through a community, and a love that may prove as dangerous as it is powerful.</p>",
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