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1529005183 
Book The dance tree; Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Year: 2023
Language: English
Type: Book
Class Number: HISTORICAL
Category: Fiction
Publisher: Picador, 2023
Physical or Electronic: Physical
ISBN: 9781529005189
Notes:
Originally published: 2022
In Strasbourg, in the boiling hot summer of 1518, a plague strikes the women of the city. First it is just one - a lone figure, dancing in the main square - but she is joined by more and more and the city authorities declare an emergency. Musicians will be brought in. The devil will be danced 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. Her best friend Ida visits regularly and Lisbet is so looking forward to sharing life and motherhood with her. And then, just as the first woman begins to dance in the city, Lisbet's sister-in-law Nethe returns from six years' penance in the mountains for an unknown crime. No one - not even Ida - will tell Lisbet what Nethe did all those years ago, and Nethe herself will not speak a word about it.
Extent: 292 pages, 20 cm, pbk
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