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    Westering Women: A Novel
    Westering Women: A Novel
    Westering Women: A Novel
    Audiobook9 hours

    Westering Women: A Novel

    Written by Sandra Dallas

    Narrated by Angela Dawe

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    "Narrator Angela Dawe’s warm voice varies seamlessly to capture the many characters, their fear, fortitude, and, in some cases, vileness. There is nothing subtle about this adventure, but it is exhilarating and hard to resist." -- Washington Post

    From the bestselling author of Prayers for Sale, Sandra Dallas' Westering Women is an inspiring celebration of sisterhood on the perilous Overland Trail.

    "If you are an adventuresome young woman of high moral character and fine health, are you willing to travel to California in search of a good husband?"

    It's February, 1852, and all around Chicago, Maggie sees postings soliciting "eligible women" to travel to the gold mines of Goosetown. A young seamstress with a small daughter, she has nothing to lose. She joins forty-three other women and two pious reverends on the dangerous 2,000-mile journey west.

    None are prepared for the hardships they face on the trek or for the strengths they didn't know they possessed. Maggie discovers she’s not the only one looking to leave dark secrets behind. And when her past catches up with her, it becomes clear a band of sisters will do whatever it takes to protect one of their own.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateJan 7, 2020
    ISBN9781250260314
    Author

    Sandra Dallas

    SANDRA DALLAS, dubbed “a quintessential American voice” by Jane Smiley in Vogue Magazine, is the author of over a dozen novels, including Little Souls and Where Coyotes Howl, many translated into a dozen languages and optioned for films. Six-time winner of the Willa Award and four-time winner of the Spur Award, Dallas was a Business Week reporter for 35 years, and began writing fiction in 1990. She has two daughters and lives with her husband in Denver and Georgetown, Colorado.

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      I absolutely loved this book. I fell in love with all the characters. Each character had such different personalities, yet all such strong women! I felt like I was on this grand adventure with them.