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Bess Heath is born to a life of privilege, one bound by Edwardian convention and a duty to marry well. But in 1915, on the verge of her eighteenth birthday, she returns home from school to an unfamiliar scene.
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"This is a wonderful love story about two people from opposite sides of the tracks enduring the hardest of hardships to be together ... Buchanan weaves Niagara Falls' history and her storytelling together masterfully." (Elle (US))
"More that just a captivating historical novel about Niagara Falls. It is a highly spiritual tale of family, love, loss, class, early environmentalism and the battles fought to make citizens aware of the natural sacrifices made in the name of progress... a story as mesmerizing as staring at the river as it plunges over the falls... readers who love strong female characters and those who appreciate the vicissitudes of history will relish Buchanan's tale." (Publishers Weekly)
"A romantic take on Niagara Falls life in the early 20th century...Buchanan's prose is elegant." (Kirkus Reviews)
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"More that just a captivating historical novel about Niagara Falls. It is a highly spiritual tale of family, love, loss, class, early environmentalism and the battles fought to make citizens aware of the natural sacrifices made in the name of progress... a story as mesmerizing as staring at the river as it plunges over the falls... readers who love strong female characters and those who appreciate the vicissitudes of history will relish Buchanan's tale." (Publishers Weekly)
"A romantic take on Niagara Falls life in the early 20th century...Buchanan's prose is elegant." (Kirkus Reviews)
From a remarkable new voice in fiction, a powerful debut novel set in Niagara Falls in the early twentieth century.
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- PublisherHutchinson
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0091925967
- ISBN 13 9780091925963
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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