The Mercies

The Mercies

Narrated by:
Jessie Buckley

Unabridged Audiobook

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Ratings
Book
4
Narrator
3
Release Date
February 2020
Duration
11 hours 7 minutes
Summary
The bestselling Richard and Judy Book Club pick and BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick.

For readers of Circe and The Handmaid’s Tale, Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Mercies is inspired by real historical events – a story about the strength and courage of women.

‘Dark, dramatic and full of danger’ - Daily Mail

The storm comes in like a finger snap . . .
1617. The sea around the remote Norwegian island of Vardø is thrown into a vicious storm. A young woman, Maren, watches as the men of the island, out fishing, perish in an instant.

Vardø is now a place of women . . .
Eighteen months later, a sinister figure arrives. Absalom Cornet has been summoned to bring the women of the island to heel. With him travels his young wife, Ursa. In her new home, and in Maren, Ursa encounters something she has never seen before: independent women. But where Ursa finds happiness, even love, Absalom sees only a place flooded with a terrible evil, one he must root out at all costs . . .

A story about how suspicion can twist its way through a community, about a love that could prove as dangerous as it is powerful.

‘Gripping’ - Madeline Miller, author of Circe
‘Took my breath away’ - Tracy Chevalier, author of Girl With a Pearl Earring
‘A beautifully intimate story of friendship, love and hope’ - Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain
‘Something rare and beautiful’ - Marian Keyes, author of Again, Rachel
‘Chilling and page-turning’ - The Times
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Matthew B.

Very enjoyable. The book is relatively sombre and I felt the narrator exasperated this at times.

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Emma E.

I love Jessie Buckley but this should have been narrated by a Norwegian person. The way she pronounces any names like she's stumbling over the words is incredibly distracting. Constantly switching between a British accent and forced Norwegian intonations on names breaks the flow of the story and I find it incredibly hard to listen to.

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Liam P.

Beautifully written, Millwood Hargrave's tale of the witch trials in Norway during the 1600s is involving, moving and angering in equal measures. Buckley's narration is indicative of her body of film work, that is, excellent.

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