Bride of New France
  • Published:
    Aug-2012 (Hardcover)
    Aug-2013 (Paperback)
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    Historical
  • Time Period:
    17th Century Colonial North America
  • Pages:
    316
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A Canadian bestseller, this richly imagined novel is about a young French woman sent to settle in the New World.

Transporting readers from cosmopolitan seventeenth-century Paris to the Canadian frontier, this vibrant debut tells of the struggle to survive in a brutal time and place. Laure Beausejour has been taken from her destitute family and raised in an infamous orphanage to be trained as a lace maker. Striking and willful, she dreams of becoming a seamstress and catching the eye of a nobleman. But after complaining about her living conditions, she is sent to Canada as a fille du roi, expected to marry a French farmer there. Laure is shocked by the primitive state of the colony and the mingling of the settlers with the native tribes. When her ill-matched husband leaves her alone in their derelict hut for the winter, she must rely on her wits and her clandestine relationship with an Iroquois man for survival.
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    •  
    • Aug-2013
    • W.W. Norton & Company
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0393345858
    • ISBN13: 9780393345858
    •  
    • Jan-2011
    • Penguin (Canada)
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0143173383
    • ISBN13: 9780143173380
    • First Edition
    • Aug-2012
    • W.W. Norton & Company
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0393073378
    • ISBN13: 9780393073379
    •  
    • Aug-2012
    • W.W. Norton & Company
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 039308387X
    • ISBN13: 9780393083873
    •  
    • Aug-2012
    • W.W. Norton & Company
    • eBook (Kindle)



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