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.
But after complaining about her living conditions, she is sent to Canada as a fille du roi, expected to.
Striking and willful, she dreams of becoming a seamstress and catching the eye of a nobleman.
Laure Beausejour has been taken from her destitute family and raised in an infamous orphanage to be trained as a lace maker.
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