The bride's farewell
By: Meg Rosoff
Publisher: Puffin
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780141383934
Subjects: Runaway teenagers; Fiction; Hunters
Description: A young woman in 1850s rural England runs away from home on horseback the day she's to marry her childhood sweetheart. Pell is from a poor preacher's family and she's watched her mother suffer for years under the burden of caring for an ever-increasing number of children. Pell yearns to escape the inevitable repetition of such a life.