Bride of New France: A Novel

By Suzanne Desrochers

Book Overview

Transporting readers from cosmopolitan seventeenth-century Paris to the Canadian frontier, this vibrant debut tells of the struggle to survive in a brutal time and place. Laure Beausejour has been taken from her destitute family and raised in an infamous orphanage to be trained as a lace maker. Striking and willful, she dreams of becoming a seamstress and catching the eye of a nobleman. But after complaining about her living conditions, she is sent to Canada as a fille du roi , expected to marry a French farmer there. Laure is shocked by the primitive state of the colony and the mingling of the settlers with the native tribes. When her ill-matched husband leaves her alone in their derelict hut for the winter, she must rely on her wits and her clandestine relationship with an Iroquois man for survival.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393073378
• ISBN13: 9780393073379
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.6" x 1.1" x 6.5"