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Maren: The Fisherman's Daughter
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ISBN10: 1807029018
ISBN13: 9781807029012
Publisher: Audiobook Publishing Services
Published: Feb 4 2026
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781807029012
Publisher: Audiobook Publishing Services
Published: Feb 4 2026
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Set against the windswept coast of Old Denmark, Maren, The Fisherman's Daughter is a moving story of loss, resilience, and the quiet strength it takes to survive. When a violent storm claims the lives of her husband and son, Hanna Iversen is left with grief-and no means to support her family. Standing before a stone memorial by the sea, she makes an impossible decision: to indenture her daughters, Maren and Betina, to Herr Agner Estridsen, a powerful wheat farmer whose wealth and authority are rooted in a lineage of Danish kings and queens. Far from the sea they love and fear, the sisters enter a world shaped by labor, hierarchy, and moral consequence. On Agner's estate, every person they encounter reflects a force that will shape their lives-responsibility and power, cruelty and compassion, abandonment and redemption. Even Stone Face, a silent boulder on the land, becomes a place of imagination and refuge. As servitude tests their endurance, Maren must confront her anger toward a bully whose actions mask a deeper misunderstanding, while Betina clings to a walking stick coiled like a serpent-a haunting symbol of life's fragile and mortal journey. Around them, friendships form in unlikely places, choices carry lasting consequences, and hope quietly takes root. Who would have guessed that something as simple as a pair of shoes could cause such turmoil?
And who could have imagined that love might emerge where survival seems uncertain? Maren, The Fisherman's Daughter is a lyrical historical novel about grief and grace, the paradoxes that define human fate, and the enduring power of compassion in the harshest of lives.
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