The Brideship Wife by Leslie Howard
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
📚 Hello book friends! I love historical fiction based on true events. The Brideship Wife by Leslie Howard starts in 1862 and tells the story of twenty-one-year-old Charlotte. Her sister Harriet is determined to find her a husband. When her meeting with one of Harriet’s husband’s colleague turns to disaster, she and her sister are forced to leave everything behind and venture to the New World. The one hundred and six-day journey will take them from London, England to Victoria in British Columbia. The journey will be dangerous and filled with incertitude. Will this give Charlotte a chance to find freedom or none?
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This book is based on the voyage of the Tynemouth, a ship that was used to bring single women from England to the New World to be married to the single men in that area. It also touches the history of the gold rush in British Columbia and the smallpox epidemic its ravage in the indigenous community.
This is a wonderful book and I recommend it to all history lovers.
🕵🏼♀️ About the author: Leslie Howard grew up in Penticton, British Columbia, where she developed a passion for the province’s history. A graduate of Ottawa’s Carleton University in economics and political science, she now divides her time between Vancouver and Penticton, where she and her husband grow cider apples. The Brideship Wife is her debut novel.
🙋🏼♀️ Thank you, Simon & Schuster Canada for sending me an ARC of this wonderful book. The Brideship Wife by Leslie Howard is now available at your favourite bookstore.
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This book is based on the voyage of the Tynemouth, a ship that was used to bring single women from England to the New World to be married to the single men in that area. It also touches the history of the gold rush in British Columbia and the smallpox epidemic its ravage in the indigenous community.
This is a wonderful book and I recommend it to all history lovers.
🕵🏼♀️ About the author: Leslie Howard grew up in Penticton, British Columbia, where she developed a passion for the province’s history. A graduate of Ottawa’s Carleton University in economics and political science, she now divides her time between Vancouver and Penticton, where she and her husband grow cider apples. The Brideship Wife is her debut novel.
🙋🏼♀️ Thank you, Simon & Schuster Canada for sending me an ARC of this wonderful book. The Brideship Wife by Leslie Howard is now available at your favourite bookstore.
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