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The dance tree : a novel
Call Number
- FICTION HARG (CEN)
Edition
First HarperVia edition.
Publication Information
New York, NY : HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2023.
Physical Description
245 pages ; 23 cm
Summary
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 when hundreds of other women join her, the men running the city declare a state of emergency and hire musicians to play the Devil out of the mob. Outside the city, pregnant Lisbet lives with her husband and mother-in-law, tending the bees that are the family's livelihood. Though Lisbet is removed from the frenzy of the dancing plague afflicting the city's women, her own quiet life is upended by the arrival of her sister-in-law. Nethe has been away for seven years, serving a penance in the mountains for a crime no one will name. It is a secret Lisbet is determined to uncover. As the city buckles under the beat of a thousand feet, Lisbet becomes caught in a dangerous web of deceit and clandestine passion. Like the women of Strasbourg, she too, is dancing to a dangerous tune...
Notes
"Originally published as The Dance Tree in the United Kingdom in 2022 by Pan Macmillan."--Title page verso.