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Emma Field Book I - coming of age in the changing times of the mid-19th century

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MsCarolWilliams

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Emma Field Novel Series

Read and re-read by soulful young people and the adults in their lives, this series is about the young Emma Field who grows up amongst the Quakers of her pioneer community of Bloomfield, Canada. Her further adventures take her amongst the Quakers of Nine Partners, New York, and later the runaway slaves and Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) of the Great Lakes.

Williams' writing has been described as the combination of earth, edge and steadiness. If you like the writing of Lucy Maud Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables), Gabrielle Roy (Children of My Heart) and Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist), you will enjoy these books.

Book One

Emma has dreams and desires that call her to go beyond her father's struggle to survive as an immigrant in Canada West in the 1840s. With the love of the Quakers and her own courage, she takes her first tentative steps at understanding the world around her.
Emma Field, Book One, is a story of birth and death; and of the stirrings of body and soul, the desire for beauty, the ache of loneliness, the drive for independence and the pain of envy. It is a story of love and dignity and the power of taking risks.All Rights Reserved

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