"As the deeply moving and troubling account of a family's breakdown, A reckoning is the perfect companion to Linda Spalding's bestselling, award-winning novel, The purchase. It opens in the spring of 1885, when John Dickinson is involved in a shameful secret that will require a t...
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"As the deeply moving and troubling account of a family's breakdown, A reckoning is the perfect companion to Linda Spalding's bestselling, award-winning novel, The purchase. It opens in the spring of 1885, when John Dickinson is involved in a shameful secret that will require a t...
"Mere" is a wonderfully electric novel about the inexorable bond between mothers and duaghters, written by two of Canada's most talented writers - themselves mother and daughter. Rich in its allegorical and sociological strands, it reaches into the Greek myth of Persephone.
Shunned by his Quaker community for marrying a servant girl, Daniel Dickinson pursues a new life on the Virginia frontier, where his family's values are tested by the challenges of homestead life and the moral dilemma of slave ownership.
1798. Daniel Dickinson, a young Quaker, leaves his home in Pennsylvania to establish a new life, along with his five children and a new 15-year-old orphan wife. When Daniel suddenly trades a horse for a young slave, it sets in motion a struggle in his conscience that will taint h...
"As the deeply moving and troubling account of a family's breakdown, A reckoning is the perfect companion to Linda Spalding's bestselling, award-winning novel, The purchase. It opens in the spring of 1885, when John Dickinson is involved in a shameful secret that will require a t...
In 1798, Daniel Dickinson, a young Quaker father and widower, leaves his home in Pennsylvania to establish a new life. He sets out with two horses, a wagonful of belongings, his five children, a 15-year-old orphan wife, and a few land warrants for his future homestead. When Danie...
In this provocative and starkly beautiful historical novel, a Quaker family moves from Pennsylvania to the Virginia frontier, where slaves are the only available workers and where the family's values and beliefs are sorely tested. In 1798, Daniel Dickinson, recently widowed and s...