![]() At the open, Alinor meets a handsome, young Catholic priest, a royals champion with the means to help the king escape. It’s also a period when a strong woman on her own, like the beautiful Alinor who has skills that others can’t understand, can easily be accused of being a witch the author cleverly plants such seeds of suspicion throughout. King Charles, forced off his throne by Parliament, has been banished to the Isle of Wight following his defeat in civil war. Her fisherman husband has been gone for months, and she must care for herself and her two growing children during a precarious time in England’s history. ![]() Alinor, a midwife with knowledge of herbal remedies, is in difficult circumstances. ![]() Gregory ( The Other Boleyn Girl) deviates from her usual focus on historical figures to shine a light on the plight of common women in 1640s England in the dynamic first book of her new Fairmile series. ![]()
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