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Married for twenty years to Edward Berry, Lyddie is used to the trials of being a whaler's wife in the Cape Cod village of Satucket, Massachusetts—running their house herself during her husband's long absences at sea, living with the daily uncertainty that Edward will simply not return. And when her worst fear is realized, she finds herself doubly cursed. She is overwhelmed by grief, and her property and rights are now legally in the hands of her nearest male relative: her daughter's overbearing husband, whom Lyddie cannot abide. Lyddie decides to challenge both law and custom for control of her destiny, but she soon discovers the price of her bold "war" for personal freedom to be heartbreakingly dear.Includes the fascinating "story behind the story" of The Widow's War, a map of colonial Brewster, and a driving tour of the village of Satucket.
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Fiction, History, Self-realization, Widows, Social Marginality, Whaling, Historical Fiction, Psychological fiction, Culture conflict, Historical fiction, Love stories, Large type books, Widows, fiction, Massachusetts, fiction, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, historical, general, Cape cod (mass.), fiction, Fiction, romance, historical, generalPlaces
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The Widow's War: A Novel
January 30, 2007, Harper Paperbacks
Paperback
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0060791586 9780060791582
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The Widow's War
June 7, 2006, Thorndike Press
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0786286377 9780786286379
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"Lyddie Berry heard the clatter of the geese and knew something was coming-Cousin Betsey, Grandson Nate, another wolf, or, knowing those fool birds, a good gust of wind-but when she heard the door snap hard against the clapboards she discounted all four of them; she whirled with the wind already in her skirts to see the Indian, Sam Cowett, just ducking beneath the lintel."
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