Pelican Girls av Julia Malye

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<p><b>''Stunning, moving, and remarkable'' Nguyen Phan Que Mai</b><i>,</i> internationally bestselling author of <i>The Mountains Sing</i> and <i>Dust Child</i><br><br><b>''A celebration of complicity and love among women''</b><b>Pilar Quintana</b>, shortlisted for the National Book Award, author of <i>The Bitch</i> and <i>Abyss</i><br><br><b>''I haven''t been this swept away by a piece of historical fiction since Maggie O''Farrell''s </b><b><i>Hamnet'' </i>Jess Walter</b>, bestselling author of <i>Beautiful Ruins</i><br><br>Paris, 1720. The Hospice of La Salp¿i¿ is overrun with ''difficult'' women. <br><br>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, Genevi¿ and P¿onille - a sharp-tongued orphan, an accused abortionist and a rumoured madwoman. <br><br>They make the voyage over the ocean, knowing nothing of the ha