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The Slow Awakening

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The Slow Awakening

In the mid-1850s, life for an orphan was grim, as Kirsten MacGregor discovered when her parents died suddenly on a journey to Northumberland, leaving her penniless and alone in the hands of a cruel farmer.

Somehow, Kirsten survived her terrible childhood â€“ only to be sold, at the age of fourteen, to a traveling tinker â€“ a vicious man who raped her and held her captive until the fateful day they were separated during a storm. Rescued from the flood by the Flynn family, she gave birth to a child as the waters raged about her. At the same time, Florence, mistress of the great house nearby, was told that her newborn son was dead. The two women entered into a secret bargain, an arrangement that was to change Kirstenâ€™s fortune and place her in the middle of a bitter feud between two families.

The Slow Awakening is a powerful novel, originally published under the pseudonym of Catherine Marchant, and reflects vividly the violence and cruelty that a poverty-stricken girl might endure in that period.
Country USA
Manufacturer Peach Publishing
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2011-03-24
UnitCount 1
Format Kindle eBook

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