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Mcallister Family
Multnomah
July 2019
On Sale: June 26, 2019
368 pages
ISBN: 0525652930
EAN: 9780525652939
Kindle: B07KDXMT5M
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Romance Historical | Historical
Between the years of 1869 to 1939 more than 100,000 poor
British children were sent across the ocean to Canada with
the promise of a better life. Those who took them in to work
as farm laborers or household servants were told they were
orphans--but was that the truth? After the tragic loss of their father, the McAlister family
is living at the edge of the poorhouse in London in 1908,
leaving their mother to scrape by for her three younger
children, while oldest daughter, Laura, works on a large
estate more than an hour away. When Edna McAlister falls
gravely ill and is hospitalized, twins Katie and Garth and
eight-year-old Grace are forced into an orphans' home before
Laura is notified about her family's unfortunate turn of
events in London. With hundreds of British children sent on
ships to Canada, whether truly orphans or not, Laura knows
she must act quickly. But finding her siblings and taking
care of her family may cost her everything. Andrew Fraser, a wealthy young British lawyer and heir to
the estate where Laura is in service, discovers that this
common practice of finding new homes for penniless children
might not be all that it seems. Together Laura and Andrew
form an unlikely partnership. Will they arrive in time? Will
their friendship blossom into something more? Inspired by true events, this moving novel follows Laura as
she seeks to reunite her family and her siblings who, in
their darkest hours, must cling to the words from Isaiah:
"Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I
am thy God".
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