Not sure if it's open to non-us residents, but leaving a comment has never heard anyone. Very much like Nicola's previous work, so look forward to reading this one!
First of all, this book sounds really good and it's definitely on my must-read list.
I find the Amish quite fascinating, ever seeing the movie Witness, even though I've never read a book about them before. Only a week or so ago I saw a documentary about an Amish family, conveying to another -less strict, but still very strict- religion and they were shunned by their families, even their mother and dad.... I found that so hard to imagine that as a parent you can completely shut your child out, just because you choose to follow a different religious path than they had mapped out for you. I think that part is what stayed with me most; not their lifestyle or 18th century ways, but the fact that a mother completely abandoned her daughter because of religion.
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