{"product_id":"2940046590142","title":"Uncertain Heritage: A Novel Of Orphaned Sisters In 1800's Canada","description":"\u003cp\u003eSet in Canada in the 1800s, this lively story of two innocent, warm-hearted orphan girls and their quest for happiness, success, knowledge of their parentage, and love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe two babies, found at the convent gates, wrapped together in a luxurious silk quilt, are cared for by the nuns of St. Joseph’s Orphanage. Red¬headed Darra and flaxen-haired Catherine grow up in Kingston, Ontario, believing themselves to be sisters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe day comes when they have to leave the convent and go into service, for without a family, it is necessary that they earn a living. Catherine composed and bookish, and tempestuous Darra, step into a world of dangers and temptations for which their religious upbringing has left them totally unprepared. As unprotected girls in a barely settled country, they are on a knife-edge between survival and destitution and it is this that makes their adventures such compulsive reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Canada of the 1850s, is wonderfully evoked, with its stark contrasts of lawlessness and Victorian civilization; a land of Missions and gamblers, soldiers, pioneer homesteaders and sophisticated French politicians.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a delightful novel, full of ironies and confusions that are not fully disentangled until the very last chapter.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ex-L-Ence Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47108518609136,"sku":"2940046590142","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940046590142_p0.jpg?v=1763695744","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940046590142","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}