Dominion of Mercy

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Filigrane

Année de parution:
2021

ISBN-13: 9781774390214

&#10;<p>Edinburgh, 1917: Headstrong Highland lass Mary&#10;Stewart is a vibrant woman forced into the world&#8217;s oldest profession in order&#10;to provide for her ailing father and younger sister in the city&#8217;s Old Town.&#10;When her uncle, a well-to-do solicitor with political aspirations, thinks that&#10;her presence might impede his lofty ambitions he gives her a way out with&#10;dignity: a one-way ticket to the frontier town of Anyox, British Columbia,&#10;where nurses are needed to care for injured soldiers returning from the war.</p><p>Mary&#10;agrees to depart Scotland and leaves her sister in the care of her uncle, but&#10;finds that a past like hers is not easy to escape, and that living on the&#10;frontier has more challenges than even the darkest streets of Old Town. She&#10;must survive by her quick intelligence, but that is a quality that few women&#10;were allowed to reveal.</p><p>In his historical epic <i>Dominion&#10;of Mercy</i>, Danial Neil gives vivid life to the gritty world of an&#10;early twentieth-century mining town and a radiant protagonist who illuminates&#10;its dark corners with her insight, empathy, and bold spirit.</p>&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;<p>Edinburgh, 1917: Headstrong Highland lass Mary&#10;Stewart is a vibrant woman forced into the world&#8217;s oldest profession in order&#10;to provide for her ailing father and younger sister in the city&#8217;s Old Town.&#10;When her uncle, a well-to-do solicitor with political aspirations, thinks that&#10;her presence might impede his lofty ambitions he gives her a way out with&#10;dignity: a one-way ticket to the frontier town of Anyox, British Columbia,&#10;where nurses are needed to care for injured soldiers returning from the war.</p><p>Mary&#10;agrees to depart Scotland and leaves her sister in the care of her uncle, but&#10;finds that a past like hers is not easy to escape, and that living on the&#10;frontier has more challenges than even the darkest streets of Old Town. She&#10;must survive by her quick intelligence, but that is a quality that few women&#10;were allowed to reveal.</p><p>In his historical epic <i>Dominion&#10;of Mercy</i>, Danial Neil gives vivid life to the gritty world of an&#10;early twentieth-century mining town and a radiant protagonist who illuminates&#10;its dark corners with her insight, empathy, and bold spirit.</p>&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;