The Witches of Vardo by Anya Bergman

The Witches of Vardo by Anya BergmanAnna, King's Prisoner, stands on the bow of a boat in the snow. She is a woman not long past her child bearing years, refusing to fade away meekly. She hankers to return to the King's Court in Copenhagen. But Anna can see only one way of getting the pardon she craves and her old life of privilege back. Witches. Here on this island in the far North, there are women who stand out in the tiny fishing community. Ingeborg is as clever and nimble as a cat,

introduced by son Adam Cohen

Following a man she barely knows to a hostile country in which she has no friends

including Guardian/Observer

after seventeen years of absence

autobiography and history

Salvation finally came from the partnership of Bennett Cerf

more perceptive or more passionate work than this

)Clever fairy camouflage (Reed fairies living in wetlands usually wear striped clothes to hide among the tall reeds

By contrast

Beneath the seductive gleam of her poetry lies an invitation to glimpse the fabulous

philosophy and comparative religion to interrogate the hypocrisies of all the religious systems and explain to readers of all ages how life emerged without a Creator

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