Rachel's Passage

By Paula Reid

Rachel agrees to marry Seth, an older man her parents have chosen for her, only because Peter, the man to whom she lost her heart, has been missing since his impressment in the British navy more than... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061013625
• ISBN13: 9780061013621
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 377 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

A fascinating story

In sections alternating between the main characters' perspectives, this beautifully written historical novel lures readers to take sides, and then doubt the side they've taken, in a lawsuit over the custody of a child. The author's thorough research into archaic legal concepts like "self divorce" and "criminal conversation" gives her fictional early American community a solid structure. Sure, it's a romantic story, but the characters are so well depicted and their controversy so sensibly drawn, that the intrigue of the book goes far beyond the simple categorization of its genre.

Entertaining and thought provoking

This book was a recent selection of my book group. It provoked an interesting discussion of women's rights in regards to divorce and custody and how those rights have changed over the years. A search in my library's card catalog turned up several other books written by the author under the name of Elizabeth Mansfield and Paula Jonas. I especially enjoyed "To Spite the Devil."

wonderful!!!

I loved every word of this book. When I finished reading it I immediately tried to find something else by Paula Reid. I am very selective in choosing my reading material. This one is a definite winner. It was clean and lively and it touched my heart. The characters were real, not out of touch with reality.

Nominated for Romantic Times Best American Historical

Rachel's Passage, by Paula Reid has been nomintated by the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award for Best American Historical Romance for 1998. I thoroughly enjoyed this book.

Stunning - Paula Reid is magnificent

Rachel's Passage is a wonderful story of a woman who has been charged with "criminal conversation" aka adultery. I loved the way Reid varied between first person and third person narrative. I hope the author plans on writing more books like this, with similar settings.