The King's Daughter - Softcover

Martel, Suzanne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0888992181 ISBN 13: 9780888992185

Publisher: Groundwood Books, 1998

Synopsis

Winner of the Ruth Schwartz Award
Jeanne Chatel has always dreamed of adventure. So when the eighteen-year-old orphan is summoned to sail from France to the wilds of North America to become a king's daughter and marry a French settler, she doesn't hesitate.

Her new husband is not the dashing military man she has dreamed of, but a trapper with two small children who lives in a small cabin in the woods. With her husband away trapping much of the time, Jeanne faces danger daily, but the bravery and spirit that brought her to this wild place never fail her, and she soon learns to be truly at home in her new land.

About this title

About the Author:

Suzanne Martel was born in Quebec City and educated in an Ursuline convent. She and her sister, Monique Corriveau, spent their childhood making up stories about a vast and adventurous family that lived in New France. These stories became the source of Suzanne's adult writing as well as that of her sister, who was also a noted Quebecois novelist.

Review:

I predict a resounding success for The King's Daughter...the kind of historical adventure that dashes along at a breakneck speed perfectly calculated to the impatience of plot-hungry youngsters... (Michele Landsberg 2000-01-01)

About this edition

• Publisher: Groundwood Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0888992181
• ISBN 13: 9780888992185
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 232