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The Mercies is a story about how suspicion can twist its way through a community, and a love that may prove as dangerous as it is powerful.On Christmas Eve, 1617, the sea around the remote Norwegian island of Vardø is thrown into a reckless storm. As Maren Magnusdatter watches, forty fishermen, including her father and brother, are lost to the waves - the menfolk of Vardø wiped out in an instant.Vardø is now a place of women.Eighteen months later, a sinister figure arrives. Summoned from Scotlan...Vis mer