{"product_id":"2940170803774","title":"Tidelands","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author and \"one of the great storytellers of our time\" (\u003ci\u003eSan\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eFrancisco Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) turns from the glamour of the royal courts to tell the story of an ordinary woman, Alinor, who cannot bear to conform to the life that lies before her.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMidsummer's Eve, 1648, England is in the grip of a civil war between renegade king and rebellious parliament. The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even the remote tidelands amp;mdash;the marshy landscape of the south coast.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlinor, a descendant of wisewomen, trapped in poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under the full moon for a ghost who will declare her free from her abusive husband. Instead, she meets James, a young man on the run, and shows him the secret ways across the treacherous marsh, not knowing that she is leading disaster into the heart of her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuspected of possessing dark secrets in superstitious times, Alinor's ambition and determination mark her out from her neighbors. This is the time of witch mania, and Alinor, a woman without a husband, skilled with herbs, suddenly enriched, arouses envy in her rivals and fear among the villagers, who are ready to take lethal action into their own hands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is dangerous for a woman to be different.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47105182662896,"sku":"2940170803774","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170803774_p0.jpg?v=1763717934","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170803774","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}