The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton
3 journalers for this copy...
Picked this one up at Abbey's sale.
From the back of the book (all typos mine):
In the middle of the last century, Lidie Newton and her abolitionist husband join the pioneering westward migration into America's heartland. To Lidie, 'Kansas seems like a new place entirely. We can't tell if anything we already know is true.' The truth proves harsher than any of the would-be homesteaders around her could have imagined. Lidie, her family and her friends, find themselves on a faultline as two great American forces rumble and crash against each other, soon to erupt into the bloodiest war the world has yet seen - the American Civil War.
From the back of the book (all typos mine):
In the middle of the last century, Lidie Newton and her abolitionist husband join the pioneering westward migration into America's heartland. To Lidie, 'Kansas seems like a new place entirely. We can't tell if anything we already know is true.' The truth proves harsher than any of the would-be homesteaders around her could have imagined. Lidie, her family and her friends, find themselves on a faultline as two great American forces rumble and crash against each other, soon to erupt into the bloodiest war the world has yet seen - the American Civil War.
I'm popping this one into RockDg9's Surprise Fiction bookbag. The opening line (which is all the next recipient will see of this book) is:
Happy reading!
I have made up my mind to begin my account upon the first occasion when I truly knew where things stood with me, that is, that afternoon of the day my father, Arthur Harkness, was taken to the Quincy graveyard and buried between my mother, Cora Mary Harkness, and his first wife, Ella Harkness.
Happy reading!
Couldn't resist that opening! retrieved from The Surprise Bookbag. Thank you!
I enjoyed this "contemporary historical fiction" I thought the end could have had a bit more oomph but it was Lidie's adventure and had to end somehow.
Journal Entry 5 by norfolk at Market Street in Merimbula, New South Wales Australia on Sunday, May 24, 2009
Released 14 yrs ago (5/24/2009 UTC) at Market Street in Merimbula, New South Wales Australia
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Enjoy!
Enjoy!
I caught this book in the Pambula op shop with a six dollar price tag on it.I explained to the lovely ladies what bookcrossing was about and they let me have the book for free to read and release into the wild again.I shall read and review this one before releasing soon.
