The lost diaries of Susanna Moodie : a novel

Summary: Teetering on the edge of genteel poverty, Englishwoman Susanna Moodie agrees to leave behind her growing career as a writer to follow her husband from her beloved Suffolk to the backwoods of Canada. It is the 1830s and profiteers are selling dreams along with the promise of fertile land in the New World. John Moodie, Susanna's husband, is a ebullient man with a weakness for money-making schemes, and he is convinced that riches await them across the ocean. Though Susanna follows, nothing is what they have been led to believe and they are woefully unprepared for life in the wilderness. While John is a devoted spouse, he is often absent, leaving Susanna to face the tremendous task of survival in the bush alone, with only her sister, Catharine Parr Trail, nearby to turn to. An engrossing tale of a woman's survival in the remote backwoods of the Canadian wilderness, drawn from the life of renowned author and pioneer Susanna Moodie.