It’s a novel about the same subject, set in the same period, but told from a 15-year-old slave’s point of view. And I guarantee that after reading this you’ll look at quilts with new eyes!Īnd if you do read and enjoy this book, keep a lookout for 'The Underground Railroad' by Colson Whitehead. A rich, well-researched novel-its the story of one young woman becoming an American. The last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier is a historical fiction that tells us the story of an English girl amist the mystery and wonders of America. The characters are well drawn and the locations vividly described. Drawn into the clandestine activities of the Underground Railroad, a network of people helping runaways escape to freedom, Honor befriends two surprising women. The story is fairly fast-moving and convincing. It’s not long before she finds herself torn between her conscience and a promise she had to give to her in-laws, and this moral dimension to the story grows in importance as you read.

Set in the sunlit cornfields of rural Ohio, during the last days of slavery. Honor has sympathy for the slaves seeking freedom, but offering assistance would put her in conflict with legislation which prohibits giving them assistance. The stunning new novel from the bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring. New York Times bestselling author of Girl With a Pearl Earring and At the Edge of the Orchard Tracy Chevalier makes her first fictional. The farm in Ohio is on the route of the Underground Railroad, a clandestine network that helps runaway slaves escape to freedom from the South to Canada. Advised by everyone to find a husband, she soon marries and becomes part of a farming family. Five Books participates in the Amazon Associate program and earns money from qualifying purchases. We publish at least two new interviews per week. The Last Runaway is the story of a young Quaker woman, Honor Bright, who travels to America from Dorset and settles with her future brother-in-law in Ohio. This site has an archive of more than one thousand seven hundred interviews, or eight thousand book recommendations. And although it was published in 2013 it nonetheless feels contemporary and topical. This book by Tracy Chevalier (the author of Girl with a Pearl Earring) is about the Underground Railroad in America in the 1850s.

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