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Unrest

✍ Scribed by Gwen Tuinman

Book ID: 115270231
Publisher: Random House of Canada
Year: 2024
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 1 MB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781039008618

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Brash, duplicitous women, murder and mayhem, and illicit love abound in this wild adventure for fans of Outlander and The Home for Unwanted Girls , announcing a major new talent in historical fiction.
Bytown, 1836: The lawless cesspool that will become the city of Ottawa is beginning to reek of more than just swamp water. Rife with squalor, corruption, and organized crime, class injustice divides the town more starkly than the canal that bisects it, cutting off its Irish poor--who are ready to fight back.
On a homestead in the woods near Bytown, a domestic drama is also reaching a fever pitch. Quiet, ungainly Mariah, her face scarred in a dog attack back home in Ireland, has been living on sufferance in her sister Biddy's home since they sailed for a new life. She's treated as the spinster aunt, a farmhand working alongside Biddy's husband, Seamus. But the three of them are keeping a bitter secret: Mariah, in love with Seamus,...

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