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Our Own Country: A Novel (The Midwife Series)
Jodi Daynard
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Paperback. Series: The Midwife Series. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FT; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 209 x 32. Weight in Grams: 444.
A love affair tests a new nation’s revolutionary ideals. In 1770s Boston, a prosperous merchant’s daughter, Eliza Boylston, lives a charmed life—until war breaches the walls of the family estate and forces her to live in a world in which wealth can no longer protect her. As the chaos of the Revolutionary War tears her family apart, Eliza finds herself drawn to her uncle’s slave, John Watkins. Their love leads to her exile in Braintree, Massachusetts, home to radicals John and Abigail Adams and Eliza’s midwife sister-in-law, Lizzie Boylston. But even as the uprising takes hold, Eliza can’t ... Read more
A love affair tests a new nation’s revolutionary ideals. In 1770s Boston, a prosperous merchant’s daughter, Eliza Boylston, lives a charmed life—until war breaches the walls of the family estate and forces her to live in a world in which wealth can no longer protect her. As the chaos of the Revolutionary War tears her family apart, Eliza finds herself drawn to her uncle’s slave, John Watkins. Their love leads to her exile in Braintree, Massachusetts, home to radicals John and Abigail Adams and Eliza’s midwife sister-in-law, Lizzie Boylston. But even as the uprising takes hold, Eliza can’t ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Condition
New
Series
The Midwife Series
Number of Pages
421
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9781503954809
SKU
V9781503954809
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Ref
99-50
About Jodi Daynard
Jodi Daynard is the author of the bestselling novel The Midwife’s Revolt. Her short stories and essays have been widely published in journals such as the New England Review, Fiction, Other Voices, and the Paris Review. Ms. Daynard has taught creative writing at Harvard University, MIT, and Emerson College.
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