6/1/2023 0 Comments The mercies novelMaren and the women lift the bodies and lay them out to await burial. Why would anyone think that? Nine days later the men are washed up, on the beaches, on the rocks. At this point in the story it is inconceivable to think that one of the women on shore should have summoned the whale and conjured the storm. The boats are chasing a shoal of fish worried by a whale out beyond the Hornøya stack. Maren, who loses her father, brother and fiancé in a freak storm that rises in a fingersnap. Not a spoiler, it’s on the back cover for those who read further than the brilliant first paragraph of the blurb about the storm that wipes of the fishermen of Vardø so the island becomes a place of women. What is it with these blokes in power who see strong women as such a threat that they have to burn them at the stake? A woman has poppets in her house. I was well into this story before I read the blurb a bit more carefully and discovered what’s not to like. Historical-1600s-a sea journey, Norway, an island setting, a storm, a bunch of women surviving remote and desolate lives. I was given this book for Christmas and was so excited.
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