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A Reckoning
Linda Spalding
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Spring 1855 and Virginian farmer John Dickinson has a dangerous secret that will lead to a tragic decision. The family's riches have been wasted by his reckless brother who holds all of them hostage and, adding fuel to John's desperation, the enslaved workers have been visited by a Canadian abolitionist who pushes them to escape. One does, and his pursuit of freedom involves a dangerous quest to find his mother and child North of the border. Meanwhile, the Dickinson family become fugitives of another kind, escaping their losses in a wagon en route to a new life in the West. Confronted ... Read more
Spring 1855 and Virginian farmer John Dickinson has a dangerous secret that will lead to a tragic decision. The family's riches have been wasted by his reckless brother who holds all of them hostage and, adding fuel to John's desperation, the enslaved workers have been visited by a Canadian abolitionist who pushes them to escape. One does, and his pursuit of freedom involves a dangerous quest to find his mother and child North of the border. Meanwhile, the Dickinson family become fugitives of another kind, escaping their losses in a wagon en route to a new life in the West. Confronted ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2019
Publisher
Muswell Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781999613501
SKU
9781999613501
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About Linda Spalding
Linda Spalding is the author of four critically acclaimed novels The Purchase,(awarded Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Award) Daughters of Captain Cook, The Paper Wife, and Mere. She runs the Canadian literary magazine, Brick, with her husband Michael Ondaatje. She lives in Toronto.
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