The lost diaries of Susanna Moodie : a novel

Summary: "A genteel young woman, woefully unprepared for life in the wilderness, finds herself on the edge of survival in the remote backwoods of Canada. It is the 1830s and profiteers are selling dreams along with the promise of fertile land in the New World. John Moodie is a man with a weakness for money-making schemes, and he is convinced that riches await him and his wife, Susanna, across the ocean. He convinces Susanna to abandon her own dreams and follow him from England, but nothing is what they have been led to believe and only hardship awaits them in this strange new land. Told through Susanna's imagined lost diaries, thisis an unprecedented story of a woman's inner life as she confronts both the wilds of Canada and the wilderness of her own heart. Part love story, part harrowing survival adventure, and based on the real life of one of Canada's most prominemt pioneers, The Lost Diaries of Susana Moodie show how one woman, against all odds and adversity, prevailed and made this savage and beautiful land her own."--

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