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Lake in the Clouds
By Sara Donati
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In her extraordinary novels Into the Wilderness and Dawn on a Distant Shore, award-winning writer Sara Donati deftly captured the vast, untamed wilderness of late-eighteenth-century New York and the trials and triumphs of the Bonner family. Now Donati takes on a new and often overlooked chapter in our nation’s past--and in the life of the spirited Bonners--as their oldest daughter, the brave and beautiful Hannah, comes of age with a challenge that will change her forever. Masterfully told, this passionate story is a moving tribute to a resilient, adventurous family and a people poised at the brink of a new century.
It is the spring of 1802, and the village of Paradise is still reeling from the typhoid epidemic of the previous summer. Elizabeth and Nathaniel Bonner have lost their two-year-old son, Hannah’s half brother Robbie, but they struggle on as always: the men in the forests, the twins Lily and Daniel in Elizabeth’s school, and Hannah as a doctor in training, apprenticed to Richard Todd. Hannah is descended from healers on both sides--one Scots grandmother and one Mohawk--and her reputation as a skilled healer in her own right is growing.
After a long night spent attending to a birth, Elizabeth and Hannah encounter an escaped slave hiding on the mountain. She calls herself Selah Voyager, and she is looking for Curiosity Freeman--a former slave herself, one of the village’s wisest women and Elizabeth’s closest friend. The Bonners take Selah, desperately ill, to Lake in the Clouds to care for her, and with that simple act they are drawn into the secret life that Curiosity and Galileo Freeman and their grown children have been leading for almost ten years. The Bonners will do what they must to protect the Freemans, just as Hannah will protect her patient, who presents more than one kind of challenge. For a bounty hunter is afoot--Hannah’s childhood friend and first love, Liam Kirby.
While Elizabeth and Nathaniel undertake a treacherous journey through the endless forests to bring Selah to safety in the north, Hannah embarks on a very different journey to New-York City, with two goals: to learn the secrets of vaccination against smallpox, a disease that threatens Paradise, and to find out what she can about Liam’s immediate past and what caused him to change so drastically from the boy she once loved. The obstacles she faces as a woman and a Mohawk make her confront questions long avoided about her place in the world.
Those questions follow her back to Paradise, where she finds that the medical miracle she brings with her will not cure prejudice or superstition, nor can it solve the problem of slavery. No sooner have the Bonners begun to rebound from their losses--old and new--than they find themselves confronted by more than one old enemy in a battle that will test the strength of their love for one another. Hannah faces the decision she has always dreaded: will she make a life for herself in a white world, or among her mother’s people?
It is the spring of 1802, and the village of Paradise is still reeling from the typhoid epidemic of the previous summer. Elizabeth and Nathaniel Bonner have lost their two-year-old son, Hannah’s half brother Robbie, but they struggle on as always: the men in the forests, the twins Lily and Daniel in Elizabeth’s school, and Hannah as a doctor in training, apprenticed to Richard Todd. Hannah is descended from healers on both sides--one Scots grandmother and one Mohawk--and her reputation as a skilled healer in her own right is growing.
After a long night spent attending to a birth, Elizabeth and Hannah encounter an escaped slave hiding on the mountain. She calls herself Selah Voyager, and she is looking for Curiosity Freeman--a former slave herself, one of the village’s wisest women and Elizabeth’s closest friend. The Bonners take Selah, desperately ill, to Lake in the Clouds to care for her, and with that simple act they are drawn into the secret life that Curiosity and Galileo Freeman and their grown children have been leading for almost ten years. The Bonners will do what they must to protect the Freemans, just as Hannah will protect her patient, who presents more than one kind of challenge. For a bounty hunter is afoot--Hannah’s childhood friend and first love, Liam Kirby.
While Elizabeth and Nathaniel undertake a treacherous journey through the endless forests to bring Selah to safety in the north, Hannah embarks on a very different journey to New-York City, with two goals: to learn the secrets of vaccination against smallpox, a disease that threatens Paradise, and to find out what she can about Liam’s immediate past and what caused him to change so drastically from the boy she once loved. The obstacles she faces as a woman and a Mohawk make her confront questions long avoided about her place in the world.
Those questions follow her back to Paradise, where she finds that the medical miracle she brings with her will not cure prejudice or superstition, nor can it solve the problem of slavery. No sooner have the Bonners begun to rebound from their losses--old and new--than they find themselves confronted by more than one old enemy in a battle that will test the strength of their love for one another. Hannah faces the decision she has always dreaded: will she make a life for herself in a white world, or among her mother’s people?
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Reviews for Lake in the Clouds
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great read as a standalone or as part of the series. It has great characters, fun plots, and is well written.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Love this series. Elizabeth and Nathaniel Bonner's adventures continue. Hannah Bonner now a young woman finds her calling. Lilly and Daniel continue to charm the readers. We get to know Curiosity and her family as well as the hardships of the freed and enslaved. BOOK #3 in the series. The characters are all so well developed they feel like family.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I can't stop reading these books, fascinating family and history.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I have really enjoyed this series so far. Although I don't normally read romance....I am enjoying the touch of romance in these novels. I find it's not too overdone and doesn't dominate the storyline which is always very entertaining. These novels are a great balance of good storytelling, characters you become very fond of, interesting historical aspect and a bit of romance.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Her style is so similar to Diana Gabaldon's that I wondered for a long time if it WAS D.G. using a pen-name.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5As usual Sara Donati spins an interesting tale. I've read three in this series and I think I've had enough.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Beautifully draw characters and story. A pleasure to read.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great book! Love this series!! this one ends with a sequal to come also. Great characters, you never know what's going to happen. Hannah leaves with her new husband,and with hawkeye to go further west. leaving the rest of the family behind. Nathanial and Eliz have great romance!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This was an interesting read. Mostly the story of Hannah, a healer and would be a doctor if it wasn't an era that didn't really allow for women doctors. The story is all about how she finds her role in life and how she grows up. Intertwined with her life is the life of her village. With all the politics and back-stabbing of a small community Sara Donati creates an interesting and fun read.I'm glad that I looked it up and will be hunting further copies, and have already recommended it to friends.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The third novel in the Wilderness series. There are some very disturbing mental images here, but some very good storytelling too, with three-dimensional characters (especially the new ones -- with the exception of Hannah and Curiosity, I find the characters we already knew from the previous two books to be perhaps a little flat in this one).