Bride of New France: A Novel

A richly imagined novel is about a young French woman sent to settle in the New World that Joseph Boyden, the Scotiabank Giller Prize winner, calls "a gorgeous historical debut."

Transporting readers from cosmopolitan seventeenth-century Paris to the Canadian frontier, this vibrant debut tells of the struggle to survive in a brutal time and place.

Laure Beausejour has been taken from her destitute family and raised in an infamous orphanage to be trained as a lace maker. Striking and willful, ...