About the book, from the publisher:
A Canadian bestseller, this richly imagined novel is about a young French woman sent to settle in the New World.Learn more about the book and author at Suzanne Desrochers' webpage, and learn more about Bride of New France at the publisher's website.
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.
My Book, The Movie: Bride of New France.
The Page 69 Test: Bride of New France.
--Marshal Zeringue
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