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The Bird Healers Daughter
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $26.00
ISBN13: 9781773105109
Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
Published: May 4 2027
Pages: 244
Language: English
From the author of the bestselling novel, The Sister's Tale
Ursa is a resourceful, unwed mother who sews men's shirts to support herself and her daughter in a modest Saint John flat. Lucy is an idealistic young woman from nearby Pleasant Valley who dreams of becoming a lawyer and seeks independence by working in a cotton mill. When Lucy rescues Ursa's elderly pug, their seemingly dissimilar lives become interwoven.
After witnessing a terrible mill accident involving a child, Lucy loses her job. Shaken, she determines to seek a degree at Mount Allison University. Soon after, Ursa also loses her piecework income, and Lucy petitions her mother to employ Ursa at the boarding house that she now runs to make ends meet.
Finding strength in a household of women, Lucy and Ursa's lives come together until Lucy's brother George discovers Ursa's single parenthood. Scandalized, George plots to remove all the women from the household, forcing Ursa to make a decision that threatens tragic consequences for herself, her child, and the entirety of Lucy's family.
An intimate novel set in the Victorian era, when women had neither social license nor political franchise, The Bird Healer's Daughter ushers readers into a world alive with possibility but fraught with imminent danger.
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