Bride of New France

by Suzanne Desrochers

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393073378
• ISBN13: 9780393073379
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.6"