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A sweeping epic in the vein of Philipp Meyer’s The Son and Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko and inspired by a true story, this stunning US literary debut captures the never-before-told journey of the Baleine Brides: a ship full of young women plucked from a Paris asylum and sent to marry settlers in North America''s rough Louisiana Territory.Paris, 1720. La Salpètrière hospital is in crisis: too many occupants, not enough beds. Halfway across the world, France''s colony in the wilds of North America has space to spare and needs families to fill it. So the director of the hospital rounds up nearly a hundred female “volunteers” of childbearing age—orphans, prisoners, and mental patients—to be shipped to New Orleans.Among this group are three unlikely friends: a sharp-tongued twelve-year old orphan, a mute ‘madwoman,’ and an accused abortionist. Charlotte, Pétronille, and Geneviève, al

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''Stunning, moving, and remarkable'' Nguyen Phan Que Mai, internationally bestselling author of The Mountains Sing and Dust Child''A celebration of complicity and love among women'' Pilar Quintana, shortlisted for the National Book Award, author of The Bitch and Abyss''I haven''t been this swept away by a piece of historical fiction since Maggie O''Farrell''s Hamnet'' Jess Walter, bestselling author of Beautiful RuinsParis, 1720. The Hospice of La Salpêtrière is overrun with ''difficult'' women. Halfway around the world, on the American frontier, French settlers are in want of wives. At the asylum, a list is drawn up: eighty-eight women of childbearing age to be shipped to New Orleans. Among them are Charlotte, Geneviève and Pétronille - a sharp-tongued orphan, an accused abortionist and a rumoured madwoman. They make the voyage over the ocean, knowing nothing

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