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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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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Bride of New France
• Subtitle: A Novel
• Author: Suzanne Desrochers
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9780393345858
• ISBN: 0393345858
• ID: 04604841
• Publisher: WW Norton & Co
• Weight: 260 g
• Dimensions: 210 × 139 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. August 2013

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