Seeking Eden
Pennsylvania, 1683. Will and Susanna,
inspired by William Penn’s vision of a
Quaker colony in America, set off with their
family to begin a new life overseas. Their
son Josiah gains an apprenticeship with a
Quaker merchant, and falls in love with his
daughter, Katherine. But when they sail to
Barbados on business, Josiah is shocked at
what he finds there, and must struggle to
uphold his own beliefs.
“...it was with a mixture of longing
and trepidation that I waited for this book;
both hoping that it would be as good as the
previous two and fearing that it couldn’t
be. I really didn’t need to have worried,
however. From the very first page I was
swept back into the world.” ML
Jensen, Amazon review.
“The characters walk off the page, the
description is economical and yet vivid. You can
smell the sawdust and see the new houses going
up as the town emerges, raw and optimistic, from
the soil of the States. Above all, this is a
gripping, exciting story that kept this reader,
at least, up way beyond her usual bedtime.”
Leslie Wilson, Armadillo Magazine, June 2012.
“The New World depicted is fresh,
international and challenging in unexpected
ways... Trade takes Jos to the sugar
plantations, and he is drawn unwillingly but
inexorably into the coils of the slave trade. We
care deeply about this: not just for the abused
Africans, but for the morally compromised
Christians.” Richard Lee, Historical
Novels Review, August 2012.
“She also takes us, from the start of the
story, into the life of a young man captured in
Africa, taken across the Atlantic in a violent,
stinking, death-trap of a slave ship, through
the experience of being sold in Barbados... We
see Josiah becoming his ally, his almost-friend
and his unintended enemy. Josiah is rescuer,
risk-taker; he is muddled, brave and foolish.”
Alison Leonard, The Friend, 2nd August
2012.
Kindle edition available in October
2013.
UK: Walker Books on 7th June 2012. ISBN:
978-1-4063-2542-3
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