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Maude's Chance
Paperback
General FictionHistorical Fiction
ISBN13: 9781067365707
Publisher: Christine Langlois
Published: Oct 19 2026
Pages: 318
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A DESPERATE MOTHER,
AN ISOLATED BOOMTOWN,
AND A FIERCE BATTLE TO SAVE LIVES IN A TYPHOID EPIDEMIC
MAUDE'S CHANCE IS A TALE OF CANADIAN GRIT AND STRENGTH IN THE NORTHERN WILDERNESS
Summer 1909. A naive Maude Sutherland steps off the train in Cobalt with her young daughter, eager to reunite with her husband and start fresh in the famous silver capital of the world. But when typhoid strikes the mines, her husband gets deathly sick.
Trapped and broke, Maude gathers her courage and takes a risky job nursing typhoid victims to pay for her husband's care. As cases mount, she rallies other frantic mothers to summon help. But the mine owners-determined to hide news of the epidemic from investors and the outside world-do everything to stop her. Can Maude and a reporter outsmart the ruthless owners? Will help arrive in time? Can Maude save her own daughter?
The novel is based on factual accounts including research contained in historian Douglas Baldwin's Cobalt: Canada's Forgotten Silver Boom Town. In 1909, the camp was hit by fire followed by a horrific typhoid epidemic. Baldwin describes the official foot dragging that followed and that the crisis was finally resolved with the help of the ladies of the town.
Women's stories are often lost. But when I read that line, Langlois says, I knew there was a novel hiding in plain sight.
The novel will appeal to readers of historical fiction, particularly those interested in women's history in Canada. It will appeal to readers who loved Nurse Julia's budding confidence and the gritty medical detail of Emma Donoghue's The Pull of the Stars, the power of women acting together in Jojo Moyes' The Giver of Stars or the stubborn pioneer spirit of Flora and her circle in Elinor Florence's Finding Flora.
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