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The Mother
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Series: The Good Lands
Mystery & ThrillerScience FictionGeneral Fiction
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ISBN13: 9781542036535
Publisher: 47 North
Published: May 23 2023
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.57 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Dragon Award for Best Speculative Fiction Nominee.
In a present-day Britain where the British Empire never existed, wives and mothers strive for deliverance in a novel about oppression, autonomy, and family secrets by the author of The Peacekeeper.
What if Europe had never colonized the world? It is a world that never had overseas empires, the transatlantic slave trade, or the Protestant Reformation. There is, however, in an obscure island nation called England, a woman running for her life.
Marie, Duchess of Suffolk, has no choice. In this society, women are a reproductive commodity. Marriage is the only available occupation. And barren wives like Marie are expendable trade. After absconding with the family jewels, Marie fakes her own death and seeks a life outside the confines of her family and her marriage. She's looking for freedom but finds even more: an underground network of women like her, her estranged sister, and a greater mission to discover the truth behind their mother's inexplicable death.
Hunted and chased across borders by those she fled, Marie has stolen more than the family jewels. She is escaping with secrets. And all that matters now, no matter the risk, is stealing freedom.
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