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Happy Friday!
And happy summer! I'm looking forward to getting in some good summer reading, this new release from Carrie Turansky included.
First Line: Katie McAlister's heart pounded out a frantic beat as she gripped the rickety railing and rushed down the back stairs.
From Page 56: This was so unfair! Why would a charitable institution charge families for the care it gave the children? There had to be some way around that rule.
Quotes taken from an Advanced Reader's Copy.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Between the years of 1869 to 1939 more than 100,000 poor British children were sent across the ocean to Canada with the promise of a better life. Those who took them in to work as farm laborers or household servants were told they were orphans–but was that the truth?
After the tragic loss of their father, the McAlister family is living at the edge of the poorhouse in London in 1908, leaving their mother to scrape by for her three younger children, while oldest daughter, Laura, works on a large estate more than an hour away. When Edna McAlister falls gravely ill and is hospitalized, twins Katie and Garth and eight-year-old Grace are forced into an orphans’ home before Laura is notified about her family’s unfortunate turn of events in London. With hundreds of British children sent on ships to Canada, whether truly orphans or not, Laura knows she must act quickly. But finding her siblings and taking care of her family may cost her everything.
Andrew Fraser, a wealthy young British lawyer and heir to the estate where Laura is in service, discovers that this common practice of finding new homes for penniless children might not be all that it seems. Together Laura and Andrew form an unlikely partnership. Will they arrive in time? Will their friendship blossom into something more?
Inspired by true events, this moving novel follows Laura as she seeks to reunite her family and her siblings who, in their darkest hours, must cling to the words from Isaiah: “Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God”.
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LOVED this one!!
ReplyDeleteToday on my blog I shared the first line from The Express Bride by Kimberley Woodhouse but I'm just getting into Yours Truly, Thomas by Rachel Fordham so I'll share the first line from that book here: "After letting an involuntary squeal escape, Penny pulled the yellow papers closer and pressed her lips to them." Hope you have a wonderful weekend with plenty of reading time!
Sounds like an interesting story. I hope you are enjoying it. This week I am featuring Call It What You Want by Brigid Kemmerer. Happy reading!
ReplyDeleteSounds like an epic story. Happy weekend!
ReplyDeleteI have that book on my TBR stack! Today I'm sharing the first lines from The Noble Guardian by Michelle Griep: "Was it wicked to say goodbye with a smile?" Happy Friday!
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Happy Friday and Happy Weekend! My first line is from "Until Then (Women of the Heartland Book 5)" by Gail Kittleson:
ReplyDelete"Sent Jerry packin', didn't we?"
Happy Friday! I'm sharing from All Manner of Things by Susie Finkbeiner on my blog today. Here is the first line from the prologue:
ReplyDelete"Summer 1955
We sat at the end of the dock, my father and me."
I reviewed this last week - it's an excellent read.
ReplyDeleteToday I’m sharing from Entanglements by Rachel McMillan on my blog, one of the novellas in Finding Ever After. Here’s the first line from the next story in the collection, Twice Upon a Time by Ashley Clark:
“Under no circumstances would she fall for him again.”