Book author: Kiran Millwood Hargrave

In the meantime, Lisbet, mistress of the bees on a farm outside the city, is waiting for her sister, a woman she has never met, to return from her punishment in the mountains. No one has told her why Agnethe was sent away, not even Lisbet’s best friend Ida.

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I loved this book. It does what novels can do so well which is take an interesting subject about a far away place in time and space – it is mostly set in a remote fishing village in seventeenth century Norway –  and turn it into a fresh, breathing creature that speaks to the world we live in today.  Continue reading The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave