The Mercies Audiobook (Free)

‘A gripping novel . Beautiful and chilling’ – Madeline Miller, author of Circe

BBC Radio 2 Publication Club Get 2020

Inspired by the real events from the Vardø surprise of 1617, The Mercies is a story about how exactly suspicion can easily twist its way through a community, and a appreciate that may prove as dangerous as it is powerful.

On Xmas Eve, 1617, the ocean around the remote control Norwegian island of Vardø is thrown into a reckless surprise. As Maren Magnusdatter watches, forty anglers, including her father and about The Mercies sibling, are lost to the waves – the menfolk of Vardø wiped out immediately.

Vardø is currently a place of women.

Eighteen months later on, a sinister shape happens. Summoned from Scotland to take control of a place at the advantage of the civilized globe, Absalom Cornet knows what he must do to create the ladies of Vardø to back heel. With him moves his young wife, Ursa. In Vardø, and in Maren, Ursa finds something she’s never seen before: independent women. But Absalom views only a place flooded with an awful wicked, one he must root out at all costs . . .