The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave review – a witch-hunt tale for our times

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Inspired by the Vardø storm of 1617, the story of how widows became the victims of a witch-hunt on a Norwegian island

Kiran Millwood Hargrave … The Mercies has all the strengths of her children’s fiction: strong characters, gorgeous settings, a literary commitment to women’s lives, work and relationships with each other.opens with a young woman, Maren, dreaming of drowning in the sea and burning at the same time while men hack a stranded whale to death on the beach. It’s a striking, uneasy beginning, but a prophetic dream is an odd foundation for a novel fundamentally opposed to superstition.

 

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