Her first book for adults, The Mercies, debuted as The Times number 1 bestseller, and at number 5 in the Sunday Times Bestseller Charts. 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.
Inspired by the real events of the Vardø storm and the 1620 witch trials, The Mercies is a feminist story of love, evil, and obsession, set at the edge of civilization. But Absalom sees only a place untouched by God and flooded with a mighty evil.Īs Maren and Ursa are pushed together and 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. In Vardø, and in Maren, Ursa sees something she has never seen before: independent women. He brings with him his young Norwegian wife, Ursa, who is both heady with her husband's authority and terrified by it. Absalom Cornet comes from Scotland, where he burned witches in the northern isles. Three years later, a sinister figure arrives. With the menfolk wiped out, the women of the tiny Northern town of Vardø must fend for themselves. Forty fishermen, including her brother and father, are drowned and left broken on the rocks below. Twenty-year-old Maren Bergensdatter stands on the craggy coast, watching the sea break into a sudden and reckless storm. After a storm has killed off all the island's men, two women in a 1600s Norwegian coastal village struggle to survive against both natural forces and the men who have been sent to rid the community of alleged witchcraft.įinnmark, Norway, 1617.
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