At the edge of the orchard
By: Tracy Chevalier
Edition: Large print edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 419
ISBN-13: 9781410485403
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Families; Frontier and pioneer life; Farmers; Large type books; Fruit growers; Fiction
Description: James Goodenough, whose family had originally settled in Connecticut from England brings his family to Ohio to carve out a new life for them in the Black Swamp in 1838. As swamp fever gradually picks off their children and they wrestle daily with survival. This course will see their family engulfed in tragedy and fifteen years later we pick up with their youngest son, Robert who has been running west since the trying to escape his memories of what happened, taking solace in a very different kind of tree--the redwoods and sequoias of California. But Robert's past catches up with him and he's forced to confront what he's running from and work out for himself that you can't run for ever.