EAN: 9781529005189

THE DANCE TREE - KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE KARTON...

The gripping new novel from Kiran Millwood Hargrave  Sunday Times bestselling author of The
Mercies. ?Intriguing  haunting . . . raw  beautiful' - Jennifer Saint  author of Ariadne  
Strasbourg  1518. In the midst of a blisteringly hot summer  a lone woman begins to dance in
the city square. She dances for days without pause or rest  and as she is joined by hundreds of
others  the authorities declare an emergency. Musicians will be brought in to play the Devil
out of these women.   Just beyond the city's limits  pregnant Lisbet lives with her
mother-in-law and husband  tending the bees that are their livelihood. And then  as the dancing
plague gathers momentum  Lisbet's sister-in-law Nethe returns from seven years' penance in the
mountains for a crime no one will name.   It is a secret that Lisbet is determined to uncover.
As the city buckles under the beat of a thousand feet  she finds herself thrust into a
dangerous web of deceit and clandestine passion  but she is dancing to a dangerous tune . . . 
Set in an era of superstition  hysteria  and extraordinary change  and inspired by the true
events of a doomed summer  The Dance Tree is an impassioned story of family secrets  forbidden
love  and women pushed to the edge.

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