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The bride's farewell

The bride's farewell

by Meg Rosoff

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A young woman runs away from home and finds love in the most unexpected placeIn Meg Rosoff's fourth novel, a young woman in 1850s rural England runs away from home on horseback the day she's to marry her childhood sweetheart. Pell is from a poor preacher's family and she's watched her mother suffer for years under the burden of caring for an ever-increasing number of children. Pell yearns to escape the inevitable repetition of such a life.She understands horses better than people and sets off for Salisbury Fair, where horse trading takes place, in the hope of finding work and buying herself some time. But as she rides farther away from home, Pell's feelings for her parents, her siblings, and her fiance surprise her with their strength and alter the course of her travels. And her journey leads her to find love where she least expects it.Rosoff's magical voice and her novel's ethereal setting will thrill her passionate longtime fans and garner her new ones.
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["Literature" "Fiction" "Fianc\u00e9s" "Young women" "Fiances" "Fiction historical" "Young women fiction" "England fiction" "England" "Fiancees" "Runaway teenagers" "Hunters" "Young adult fiction" "Fiction historical general" "Dutch literature" "Fiction general"]

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