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āWhat a heroine Endurance Proudfoot is! I loved her from the start. An unconventional woman who takes us on a fascinating - if bumpy - ride through a manās world. I laughed, cried and most of all cheered! Canāt stop thinking about itā¦ an absolute cruncher of a taleā Janice Hallett, author of The Appeal
'A complete joy of a novel that, like itās wonderful protagonistās namesake, is a story of endurance against all odds. Full of heart and so eloquently written, THAT BONESETTER WOMAN had me cheering Durie on from start to finish - I absolutely loved it' Susan Stokes-Chapman, author of Pandora
Itās usual, they say, for a young person coming to London for the first time to arrive with a head full of dreams. Well, Endurance Proudfoot did not. When she stepped off the coach from Sussex, on a warm and sticky afternoon in the summer of 1757, it never occurred to her that the city would be the place where sheād make her fortune; she was just very annoyed to be arriving there at all.
Meet Endurance Proudfoot: clumsy as a carthorse, strong as an ox, with a tactless tongue and a face sheās sure only a mother could love. Durie wants one thing in life: to become a bonesetter like her father. Itās physically demanding work, requiring nerves of steel, and heās adamant itās not a job for a woman.
Strong-willed and stubborn, Durieās certain that in bonesetting, her big, usually clumsy hands have found their natural calling. So when sheās bundled off to London with her beautiful sister, she wonāt let it stop her realising her dream. As her sister finds fame on the stage, Durie becomes Englandās most celebrated bonesetter ā but what goes up must come down, and her success may become her undoing.
Inspired by the true stories of two of Georgian Englandās most famous celebrities, That Bonesetter Woman is an uplifting tale about finding the courage to go your own way, when everyone says you canāt ā and about realising that what makes you different can also make you strong.
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23-3-2024
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Jessica
23-3-2023
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