Midsummer's Eve, 1648, and England is in the grip of civil war between a renegade King and a rebellious Parliament. The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even the remote Tidelands where Alinor, descendant of wise women crushed by poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under a full moon for a ghost who will declare her free from her abusive husband. Instead she meets James, a young man on the run, whom she shows the secret way across the treacherous marsh, not knowing that she is leading disaster into the heart of her life.
adult
Philippa Gregory.
Compact discs.
Title from web page.
Read by Louise Brealey.
