Pelican girls : a novel / Julia Malye.
"Paris, 1720. La Salpêtrière hospital is in crisis: too many occupants, not enough beds. Halfway across the world, France’s colony in the wilds of North America has space to spare and needs families to fill it. So the director of the hospital rounds up nearly a hundred female “volunteers” of childbearing age – orphans, prisoners and mental patients – to be shipped to New Orleans. Among this group are three unlikely friends: a sharp-tongued twelve-year old orphan, a mute ‘madwoman,’ and an accused abortionist. Charlotte, Pétronille, and Geneviève, along with the dozens of other women aboard La Baleine, have no knowledge of what lies ahead and no control over their futures. Strangers brought together by fate, these brave and fierce young women will face extraordinary adversity—pirates, slavedrivers, sickness, war—but also the private trauma of heartbreak and unrequited love, children born and lost, cruelty and unexpected pleasure, and a friendship forged in fire that will sustain through the years." -- From inside cover.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780063299757
- Physical Description: 354 pages : map ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York, New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024]
- Copyright: ©2024
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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Subject: | Women > Louisiana > New Orleans > Fiction. Deportees > Louisiana > New Orleans > Fiction. Deportees > France > Fiction. Female friendship > Fiction. Ocean travel > Fiction. New Orleans (La.) > History > 18th century > Fiction. |
Genre: | Historical fiction. |
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