The Last Runaway

The Last Runaway
Tracy Chevalier

‘The best thing she's written since Girl with a Pearl Earring’ Rose TremainThe stunning novel from the bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring.Honor Bright is a sheltered Quaker who has rarely ventured out of 1850s Dorset when she impulsively emigrates to America. Opposed to the slavery that defines and divides the country, she finds her principles tested to the limit when a runaway slave appears at the farm of her new family. In this tough, unsentimental place, where whisky bottles sit alongside quilts, Honor befriends two spirited women who will teach her how to turn ideas into actions.

The Last Runaway

TRACY CHEVALIER

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First published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2013

Copyright © Tracy Chevalier 2013

Map © John Gilkes 2013

Tracy Chevalier asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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Ebook Edition © ISBN: 9780007517312

Version: 2015-12-09

Dedication (#ulink_5d6dc0c3-e23e-52dd-b738-eed38c29321d)

This book is dedicated to Catoctin Quaker Camp

and Oberlin College:

two places that shaped and guided my younger self

Contents

Cover (#u057b6740-8605-5b7e-80bc-d97a90bcb5d1)

Title Page (#uc4832f6a-5072-5f94-bd25-a8af693fd64e)

Copyright (#u75c07bd0-fcb1-57c1-8cd4-7ae1ce97f0f7)

Dedication (#ucaf8c014-6ebb-54f6-bb57-8addd24e34ba)

Map (#u23254e19-7ce0-5edf-bc25-2e4443c2c19c)

Horizon (#uaf088be1-35dc-5280-9c03-becab733b675)

Quilt (#u811c357b-6c42-58c7-885d-673000ae844e)

Bonnets (#uc6857157-14d1-5c01-b6b4-19142c4257b5)

Silence (#u45c19908-a856-56ae-bb57-de22d2e7b3f4)

Appliqué (#uc2ae0d68-cd5a-5777-b60b-d0950ab3b9d8)

Dandelions (#litres_trial_promo)

Woods (#litres_trial_promo)

Corn (#litres_trial_promo)

Fever (#litres_trial_promo)

Blackberries (#litres_trial_promo)

Pole Star (#litres_trial_promo)

Sugaring (#litres_trial_promo)

Milk (#litres_trial_promo)

Onions (#litres_trial_promo)

Straw (#litres_trial_promo)

Water (#litres_trial_promo)

Comfort (#litres_trial_promo)

Ohio Star (#litres_trial_promo)

Read on for an extract from Tracy Chevalier’s new novel, At the Edge of the Orchard (#litres_trial_promo)

Acknowledgements (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)