The Bride's FarewellBy Meg Rosoff
Viking, 2009. 214 pgs. Historical Fiction
In the early morning of her wedding day, Pell slips out of the house and runs off to the Salisbury Horse Fair. Determined not to become like her mother and bear hungry child after hungry child, Pell takes off in hopes of finding work somewhere else and escapes, only to find that her youngest brother, Bean, has followed her. After meeting colorful and helpful people, Pell meets a horse trader who seems to rip her off and steal Bean. Losing hope of finding Bean, Pell takes shelter with a poacher. Eventually the desire to find Bean returns and Pell takes off on a journey that takes her back to where she started. I enjoyed this quiet and lovely book about hopes, dreams, love, and reality.
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