In The Mercies, she sweeps us to a place that dazzles and reeks and chills to the bone, where the hearts of women roar louder than storms. 'With her characteristic tenderness and prose that tides between the carnal and the sublime, Kiran Millwood Hargrave illuminates one of the darkest chapters of our history. The Mercies is a very special book.' - Louise O'Neill, author of Asking For It
On finishing it I pressed the book to me, hoping to absorb some of her skill.' - Tracy Chevalier Kiran Millwood Hargrave has masterfully built up an incredible claustrophobic atmosphere, shot through with delicate intimacy. A beautifully rendered portrait of a community, a landscape, a relationship, I read it with equal parts hope and dread. Millwood Hargrave is a whirlwind, storm-building talent' - Daisy Johnson, Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of Everything Under Beautiful and chilling' - Madeline Miller But her most vital insights are about the human heart: how terrifyingly quickly prejudices can turn into murder, and how desperately we need love and courage to oppose it.
Hargrave's prose is visceral and immersive the muddy, cold life and politics of a fishing village leap to vivid life. 'A gripping novel inspired by a real-life witch hunt. '.the author has created a world completely immersive and convincing' - The Telegraph Publisher: Pan Macmillan ISBN: 9781529075076 Number of pages: 352 Weight: 255 g Dimensions: 197 x 130 x 21 mm MEDIA REVIEWS Inspired by the real events of the Vardo storm and the 1621 witch trials, Kiran Millwood Hargrave'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.
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. In Vardo, and in Maren, Ursa finds something she has never seen before: independent women. 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. 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.Įighteen months later, a sinister figure arrives. On Christmas Eve, 1617, the sea around the remote Norwegian island of Vardo is thrown into a reckless storm.
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