The year is 1885, and what Clara Thomas desires most is a life beyond the ordinary. As one of Canada’s first female physicians, she yearns to start her own medical practice. Unfortunately, her parents view her goals as an idle preoccupation, encouraging her instead to settle down with a man of their choosing and give up her dreams. Fleeing this conventional life, Clara marries a handsome stranger in haste and journeys to British Columbia to start a life she wants to live. Unfortunately, she shortly discovers that her husband has a crippling addiction and a tendency towards laziness and anger. She could escape to Ontario, but this would also mean giving up her clinic and the relationships she’s made in her new home. In an age where a woman’s worth, rights, and choices are determined by her husband’s whims, will Clara be forced to bow to convention, or will she throw caution to the wind and follow her heart? A heart-rending historical fiction about finding your way, The Roads We Take brings to life the struggles of women in late nineteenth-century Canada.
The Smallest Man
Frances Quinn
audiobookbookThe Lost Manuscript
Mollie Rushmeyer
audiobookThe Hunchback of Notre Dame (Illustrated)
Victor Hugo
bookIsland Rule : Stories
Katie M. Flynn
audiobookbookSnow White Learns Witchcraft
Theodora Goss
audiobookRivals
Sam Michaels
audiobookThe Golden Age of Murder
Martin Edwards
audiobookLost in Paris
Betty Webb
audiobookOn Gin Lane
Brooke Lea Foster
audiobookbookBrunswick Street Blues
Sally Bothroyd
audiobookThat Bonesetter Woman : the new feelgood novel from the author of The Smallest Man
Frances Quinn
audiobookbookTwo Wars and a Wedding : A Novel
Lauren Willig
audiobook