The Purchase
With a fresh new package, Linda Spalding's award-winning national bestseller, The Purchase, will be launched in time for her much anticipated new novel coming out this fall.
In 1798, a young Quaker father and widower is forced to leave his home in Pennsylvania with his fifteen-year-old new wife and his five children to establish a life elsewhere. When he soon finds himself the owner of a young slave boy, a chain of events is set in motion that will lead to two murders and the family's strange relationship with a runaway slave named Bett.
Lyrical yet as hard-edged as the realities of pioneer life, Spalding's writing is nothing short of stunning, her characters and their stories unforgettable. Atmospheric and gripping, powerful and morally…
$22.00
August 15, 2017
Linda Spalding was born in Kansas and lived in Mexico and Hawaii before immigrating to Canada in 1982. She is the author of four critically acclaimed novels, The Purchase (awarded Canada's Governor General's Literary Award), Daughters of Captain Cook, The Paper Wife, and (with her daughter Esta) Mere. Her nonfiction includes A Dark Place in the Jungle, Riska: Memories of a Dayak Girlhood, and Who Named the Knife. In 2003 Spalding received the Harbourfront Festival Prize for her contribution to the Canadian literary community. She lives in Toronto, where she is an editor of Brick magazine.
www.lindaspalding.com
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