**Drawing on her own family history, this is a story from Jackie French about education in Colonial Australia - and how women once had to fight for their right to it.**January 1901 Sharks circle a stranded ship as a young girl and her family stagger from the waves ... Rescued by a Pacific
The Schoolmaster's Daughter
โ Scribed by Smolens, John
- Book ID
- 109267775
- Publisher
- Pegasus
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 386 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781605983738
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โฆ Synopsis
From the critically acclaimed author of The Anarchist and The Invisible World --an astonishing historical novel set during the American Revolution.
With the outbreak of the American Revolution, Abigail Lovell's family is torn apart--while her schoolmaster father is an outspoken loyalist, she and her two brothers engage in acts of espionage to undermine the British in Boston. Her sickly older brother, James, operates the patriots' spy ring. Abigail acts as a courier, eluding increasingly aggressive British patrols and her younger brother, Benjamin, slips out of Boston to fight alongside Abigail's love, Ezra, in the battles at Lexington and Concord. With the help of her friend, Rachel Revere, Abigail smuggles money and supplies out to her brother, Ezra and Rachel's brother, Paul.
But when a British sergeant is found murdered, Abigail stands accused and, in possession of valuable intercepted information, she now must fight to save herself and those she...
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