This wonderful new historical fiction novel (by the author of Girl with a Pearl Earring – still my favorite of her books) is about a girl, Honor Bright who is an immigrant in the 1850s, traveling with her sister from England to settle in a Quaker community close to Oberlin, Ohio.
Honor experiences tragedy and homesickness, but comes to love her new country and admire those who work on the Underground Railway.
This book is filled with well drawn pioneer characters and historical observations, as well as early American quilting lore. As the author attended Oberlin College, I suspect that this novel is partly a love letter to that area of Ohio and the Quaker ideology.
Highly recommended!
