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  Elinor Florence

  4.0 out of 5 stars Great book club selection

  Reviewed in Canada on April 23, 2025

  4.5 stars. With a very slender historical source, the 1789 diary of a New England midwife, the author has woven a compelling tale of rape and murder. Her sense of time and place is impeccable, and I was fully engaged with the story and rooting for the main character every step of the way. The novel is also a painful reminder of how women were treated as inferior creatures, in ways that seem staggering to us today. I was particularly interested in the justice system in this new American nation, borrowed from the British, which was flawed but functioning.

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