The Sister's Tale
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Narrated by:
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Martha Irving
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Written by:
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Beth Powning
About this listen
National Best Seller
A novel of orphans and widows, terror and hope, and the relationships that hold us together when things fall apart.
With murder dominating the news, the respected wife of a New Brunswick sea captain is drawn into the case of a British home child whose bad luck has turned worse. Mortified that she must purchase the girl in a pauper auction to save her from the lechery of wealthy townsmen, Josephine Galloway finds herself suddenly the proprietor of a boarding house kept afloat by the sweat and tears of a curious and not completely compatible collection of women, including this English teenager, Flora Salford. Flora's place in her new "family" cannot be complete until she rescues the missing person in her life, the only one who understands the trials she has come through and fresh horrors met since they were separated years before.
Reconnecting with characters of Beth Powning's beloved The Sea Captain's Wife, The Sister's Tale is a story of women finding their way, together, through terrible circumstances they could neither predict nor avoid, but will stop at nothing to overcome.
©2021 Beth Powning (P)2021 Knopf CanadaWhat the critics say
“Powning’s approach to historical fiction is, as ever, tactile and immersive.” (The Globe and Mail)
"Beth Powning is one of Canada’s most prolific writers.... Her latest epic is a sprawling tale...[that] bring[s] back beloved characters from her lauded 2007 masterpiece The Sea Captain’s Wife.... Both well researched and deliciously entertaining, this book finds Powning at the top of her game.” (The Maritime Edit)
"Beautifully crafted, The Sister’s Tale transports us to the very heart of Victorian New Brunswick, leaving us richer for what we have seen there: the strength and courage of its women.” (Eva Stachniak, author of The Chosen Maiden)
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- Anonymous User
- 2021-11-16
Sisters: protection of kin + the sisterhood
Loved the micro story of Flora + Enid + Josephine. Loved the macro story of suffragettes.
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- Gisele Normandeau
- 2024-02-13
I WAS BORN IN NEW BRUNSWICK !!!
When I chose this book, I never thought that the story was about the struggles of women in St-Johns New-Brunswick. I was born in Campbellton N.B. in 1964. A much better time for me than these women in those days. It made me think about my heritage and how lucky I am today !
I loved the whole book and what it was about and how women were treated and how they had to fight for their rights then !!!!
I would of loved that the voice of the men were read from a man! It would make it more realistic!
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