The Dance Tree Book (Paperback)
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RELEASE DATE - 27 APRIL 2023
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 from Kiran Millwood Hargrave, the bestselling author of The Mercies.
"Extraordinary . . . enthralling . . . An exceptionally atmospheric, original story."
Sunday Times, Historical Fiction Book of the Month
"Unusual and beautifully written, and the questions it raises about faith and love linger."
The Times
"Exceptionally brilliant. Immersive, sensual, compelling and totally convincing. Accessible, ambitious, The Dance Tree deserves to win prizes."
Marian Keyes
"An intriguing, haunting novel pulsing with raw, beautiful emotion . . . a novel in which female courage and resilience shines brightly against a brilliantly evoked backdrop of claustrophobic horror."
Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne
"I absolutely loved this book . . . an exceptionally beautiful portrait of women from the past, told in the most spellbinding prose."
Elodie Harper, author of The Wolf Den
"Millwood Hargrave has a masterly ability to summon the past to the page. The Dance Tree vibrates with urgency; [a] vivid, compassionate evocation of women and their desires in a time of patriarchal control."
Hannah Kent, bestselling author of Burial Rites
| Author | Kiran Millwood Hargrave |
| Format | Paperback |
| Pages | 304 |
| ISBN | 9781529005189 |
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