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But Absalom sees only a place flooded with a terrible evil, one he must root out at all costs . . .  &#8216;Beautiful and chilling&#8217; &#8211; Madeline Miller, author of Circe &#8216;Took my breath away&#8217; &#8211; Tracy Chevalier, author of Girl with a Pearl Earring<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":39240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4330,4318,4364,4334,4329],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-award-winner","category-fiction","category-historical-fiction","category-historical-romance","category-romance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.9 (Yoast SEO v28.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Mercies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Sunday Times Bestseller and BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick. 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