But Absalom sees only a place untouched by God, and flooded with a mighty and terrible evil. 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, beneath a midnight sun, a sinister figure arrives in Vardø. With the menfolk wiped out, the women of Vardø must fend for themselves. Forty fishermen, including her brother and father, are drowned and left broken on the rocks below. Longlisted for Not the Booker Prize.īeneath the sunken sun on Christmas Eve 1617, where Finnmark, Norway, scatters into its northernmost islands, twenty-year-old Maren Magnusdatter watches the sea break into a sudden and reckless storm. Winner of a Betty Trask Award 2021, Winner of Le Prix Rive Gauche à Paris 2020. New York Times 100 Most Notable Books 2020. The Times Number 1 Bestseller, The Sunday Times Bestseller.
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