Savage lands
By: Clare Clark
Series: Charnwood series
Publisher: Charnwood
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781444805741
Subjects: Fiction; History
Description: It is 1704 and, in the swamps of Louisiana, France is clinging to its new colony with less than two hundred men. Into this hostile land comes Elisabeth Savaret, one of twenty-three women sent from Paris to marry men they have never met. With little expectation of happiness Elisabeth is stunned to find herself falling passionately in love with her husband, infantryman Jean-Claude Babelon. But Babelon is a dangerous man to love. Witness to Elisabeth¡s devotion is another of his acolytes, Auguste, a young boy despatched to act as go-between with the 'redskins'. When both Elisabeth and Auguste find their love challenged by Babelon¡s duplicity, the consequences are devastating.
Notes: Originally published: London: Harvill Secker, 2010.