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Brought to live with the George family as a child, all anyone knew about enigmatic Rachel was that she worked hard, making herself indispensable to the plantation. And she remained a mystery until the day she disappeared...even to her husband. Especially to her husband.
Henry was Rachel’s opposite—gregarious where she was quiet, fanciful where she was pragmatic. After years of marriage, Rachel left Henry and their oldest son without explanation and set off on a steamer for New York City with their other four children. Was her flight the ultimate act of betrayal or one of extraordinary courage? Eight characters connected by blood and circumstance reconstruct Rachel’s inexplicable vanishing act.
Weaving real family letters into this narrative of her own great-grandparents, Laurel Saville creates a historical novel of incredible depth and beauty.
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Laurel Saville is an award-winning writer. Her memoir, Unraveling Anne, originally published under the title Postmortem, won a Next Generation Indie Book Award and a Hollywood Book Festival award in 2011. A graduate of New York University, she also holds a master of fine arts degree in creative writing and literature from Bennington College in Vermont.
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Henry never expected to fall in love again after his wife died in childbirth. Their courtship, marriage, and honeymoon all passed in the blink of an eye, and his heart still ached for her. Still, the West Indies was full of eligible women, and Henry dutifully attended a variety of social events. It wasn’t until he laid eyes on Rachel, the mysterious girl employed by Mr. George, that he believed his heart could be full again. Years later, when Rachel and their children flee the home they shared, Henry is forced to pick up the pieces of his life and finally discover the truth about Rachel. Saville used primary sources found in old letters to flesh out Henry and Rachel, the touching story of a couple’s shared betrayals, discoveries, and reconnections. Saville allows readers to gradually piece together Rachel’s history by breaking up the chronology of the story through flashbacks and alternate narrators. Fans of Anita Shreve and Gaynor Arnold will enjoy Saville’s poetic, lyrical voice, and the lush West Indies provide a gorgeous setting for this tender, poignant debut novel. —Stephanie Turza
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- PublisherLake Union Publishing
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1611099668
- ISBN 13 9781611099669
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages284
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