December 2021 – Coles Book Club
Postponed until 2022
We’ve contacted all Book Club friends about this postponement and will be in touch again early in the New Year with revised details – apologies.
The Coles Book Club – an opportunity to read the book and then join us to meet the author Kiran Millwood Hargreave for an evening of chat and enjoyment at Coles with your fellow readers. The book you buy from Coles becomes your ticket for the evening – click on the book cover below to buy your book online and we’ll post it to you, or call in at the Shop and pick up a copy.
About the book: The storm comes in like a finger snap . . .
Winter, 1617. The sea around the remote Norwegian island of Vardo is thrown into a vicious storm. A young woman, Maren, watches as the men of the island, out fishing, perish in an instant. Vardo 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 . . .
‘Chilling and page-turning’ – The Times
‘Dark, dramatic and full of danger’ – Daily Mail
‘Gripping’ – Madeline Miller
‘Took my breath away’ – Tracy Chevalier
About the Author: Kiran Millwood Hargrave is an award-winning poet, playwright, and novelist. Her bestselling works for children include The Girl of Ink & Stars. The Mercies is is her first novel for adults. Kiran lives by the river in Oxford, with her husband, artist Tom de Freston, and their rescue cat, Luna.
