Mailbox Monday #meme

Reading time: 2 – 2 minutes

This is a #meme hosted at The Printed Page. I love getting books in the mail. Heck, I love getting mail! This past week I received:

• The Wives of Henry Oades by Johanna Moran (ISBN:978-0-345-51095-2) Publisher Sent ARC

This week was pretty slow in terms of getting anything. This book was sent directly to my house, but I went and checked my PO Box yesterday and was disappointed to see nothing!  It’s always a sad week if you check an empty mailbox!

The Wives of Henry Oades (Synopsis taken from back of book)

For Margaret Oades, everthiing changes when her husband, Henry, accepts a bank post in New Zealand and she and their children follow him from London to exotic Wellington. But a single night of tragedy shatters the family when the native Maori stage an uprising and Margaret and the children are abducted and presumed dead. Grief stricken, Henry travels to Berkely, California, where he eventually married a young widow with a new baby … only to have his first wife and children show up soon after, alive and having finally escaped from captivity.

Narrated primarily by the two Mrs. Oadeses, Johanna Moran’s powerful imagining of what ahppens when Henry and his two wives face persecution for bigamy explores the intricacies of marriage, the construction of family , and the courage of two remarkable women.

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