philippa gregory tidelands books in order

Midsummer’s Eve, 1648, and England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. A dangerous time for a woman to be different. You can grab the book via the button below, or listen to the audiobook here.Įngland 1648. And I heard a rumor that the author is already most of the way through the second book, which will tell us about the next generation of the family and be set partly in London and partly in Venice. If you enjoy historical fiction I’d certainly add this one to your ‘to be read’ list. Having said all that, I still gave the book four out of five because I did think it was mostly written very well, and it transported me to another place and time, and made me think about what life would have been like then. Obviously I don’t really know how people spoke back in the 1640s but it didn’t seem natural and often forced me out of the flow of the story. I also felt a lot of the dialogue was forced and unreal. She is surrounded by suspicion as the town folk think she has ‘the sight’ and that her beautiful children came from fairies.Īt times I found the story frustrating because Alinor is often her own worst enemy, and I wanted to shake some sense into her.

Our heroine is a poor woman, with two children, who’s husband has left her. The story is set in 1640s England, in the tidelands on the coast of England near Chichester in West Sussex. Once the book was released I got myself the audiobook to see if that would help me enjoy it more, which I think it did to some extent because Louise Brealey is a fantastic narrator. It definitely took me a longer to get into, than her other books, and I found myself not really liking any of the characters very much to begin with. So when I received an advancer reader copy of Tidelands I was beyond excited to get stuck into it. I’ve read most of her books multiple times and they have continued to be favorites.

I’ve been a Philippa Gregory fan for as long as I can remember.

Tidelands by Philippa Gregory is the first in her new Fairmile series.

Philippa gregory tidelands books in order