The Dance Tree The Dance Tree

The Dance Tree

The BBC Between the Covers Book Club Pick

    • 5.0 • 2 Ratings
    • €6.99

Publisher Description

The gripping historical novel from Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Mercies. The perfect book club read, as seen on BBC Two's Between the Covers.


‘Exceptionally brilliant. Sensual, compelling’ – Marian Keyes, author Again, Rachel


Set in an era of superstition and hysteria, 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 . . .


Strasbourg, 1518. Lisbet is pregnant, but frightened she will lose the child, when the arrival of a stranger upends her world, and promises to change her understanding of love forever.


Ida’s life seems simple – she is married, her family fully formed – but a buried secret threatens to destroy her peaceful existence.


Nethe has just returned from years in exile, punishment for a crime no one will name.


As a mysterious dance plague takes hold of the city, all three women become entangled in a web of deceit and clandestine passion that has them dancing to a dangerous tune.


‘Intriguing, haunting, beautiful’ – Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne

'I absolutely loved this book' – Elodie Harper, author of The Wolf Den

‘Extraordinary, enthralling’ – Sunday Times

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2022
12 May
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
304
Pages
PUBLISHER
Pan Macmillan
Macmillan Publishers Limited
SIZE
2.3
MB
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