Description
Fiction. In 1638, Anne Yale Hopkins, a voracious reader, comes to Hartford, Connecticut, delighted to have escaped through marriage the household of her stepfather, a rigorous Puritan. She can hardly wait to make a fresh start in a new land, but her first enthusiastic impressions gradually change as she faces rigidity and judgmentalism. Prevented from writing, Anne is devastated, but keeps her journal in secret, while flashes of lost memory prompt her to face a new reality.
Author Bio
Anne McPherson, freelance art curator, concert presenter, and former teacher of literature, is the author of two previous books: Walking to the Saints: A Little Pilgrimage in France (2000), and Ways of the Wilderness: A Personal Journey through Religion and Literature (2003), as well as the libretto for Timothy Sullivan's opera Florence: The Lady with the Lamp. As a journalist, she has written articles and reviews for numerous magazines and newspapers, including Canadian Art, C Magazine, Art in America, American Ceramics, Ceramics: Art and Perception, Azure, and The Globe and Mail. She lives in Fonthill, Ontario, and since 2005, has been the Artistic Director of Primavera Concerts, a series of chamber and choral music concerts held in St. Catharines, Ontario every spring.
Author City: FONTHILL, ON CAN