Books like Burial Rites
In northern Iceland in 1829, Agnes Magnúsdóttir, condemned to death for murder, is sent to wait out the winter on a district officer's farm, where the family that resents her slowly begins to hear her side.
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The Mercies
In 1617, after a storm drowns nearly every man of a fishing village on the Norwegian island of Vardø, the women learn to fend for themselves, until a witch-hunter arrives with his young Scottish wife.
The Frozen River
In 1789 in Hallowell, Maine, the midwife Martha Ballard is called to examine a man found frozen in the Kennebec River, one of two respected men accused months earlier of rape, and her diary and her determination set her against the town's powerful.
Drowning Ruth
In 1919 Amanda Starkey leaves her nursing job in Milwaukee for the family farm on a Wisconsin lake, and after her sister drowns there one winter night, she raises her niece, Ruth, under a cloud of secrets.
The Familiars
In 1612 Lancashire, seventeen-year-old Fleetwood Shuttleworth, pregnant again after miscarriages that nearly killed her, hires a midwife named Alice Gray just as the Pendle witch accusations begin.
Cane River
Drawn from the author's own family, the lives of four generations of women of colour along the Cane River in Louisiana, from Elisabeth, born into slavery, to her great-granddaughter Emily, across a century.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
From reveille to lights out, one day in the life of Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, a peasant soldier serving ten years in a Soviet labour camp in the Kazakh steppe.
Gunnar's Daughter
In Iceland and Norway around the year 1000, Vigdis Gunnarsdatter is raped by the young Norwegian Ljot, raises the son she bears alone, and nurses her vengeance.
Trilogy
Asle and Alida, a young unmarried couple with a baby on the way, wander through the autumn rain in Bjørgvin looking for somewhere to stay.
Isola
Based on the life of Marguerite de la Rocque, a French orphan whose guardian sails her to New France in the 1540s and abandons her on an island off Canada with her lover and her nurse when he discovers the affair.
Affinity
In 1874 a grieving gentlewoman begins visiting the women's wing of Millbank prison as a Lady Visitor and becomes fascinated by an inmate, a young spirit medium jailed after a seance went wrong.
Independent People
An Icelandic sheep farmer who worked for years to own his own land refuses to bend to anyone, and his family pays for his fierce independence across decades of hardship.
After the Divorce
When Costantino is sentenced to prison for a murder he didn't commit, his wife Giovanna, under a new law allowing divorce, takes a richer husband in their Sardinian village.