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The Radio 2 Book Club with Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Jo is joined by author Kiran Millwood Hargrave for the Radio 2 Book Club to discuss her book 'The Mercies', inspired by a real-life witch hunt.

Jo is joined by author Kiran Millwood Hargrave for the Radio 2 Book Club to discuss her book "The Mercies".

On Christmas Eve, 1617, the sea around the remote Norwegian island of Vardø is thrown into a reckless storm. As Maren Magnusdatter watches, forty fishermen, including her father and brother, are lost to the waves - the menfolk of Vardø wiped out in an instant.

Vardø is now a place of women.

Eighteen months later, a sinister figure arrives. Summoned from Scotland to take control of a place at the edge of the civilized world, Absalom Cornet knows what he needs to do to bring the women of Vardø to heel. With him travels his young wife, Ursa. In Vardø, and in Maren, Ursa finds something she has never seen before: independent women. But Absalom sees only a place flooded with a terrible evil, one he must root out at all costs.

Inspired by the real events of the Vardø storm and the 1621 witch trials, Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s The Mercies is a story about how suspicion can twist its way through a community, and a love that may prove as dangerous as it is powerful.

And whether you’re picking up or dropping off, Jo provides the soundtrack for the Taxi Service.

1 hour, 57 minutes

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    • Is This A Dream.
    • Kobalt.
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    • Into The Eighties (Various Artists).
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    • Now 35 (Various Artists).
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    • Unholy Elixir.
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Broadcast

  • Mon 27 Jan 2020 19:00
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2