Description

Pride and Prejudice meets Cold Mountain. Harriet Winter is the eldest daughter in a farming family in New Hampshire, 1807. Her neighbour is Daniel Long, who runs his family s farm on his own after the death of his parents. Harriet s mother sees Daniel as a good match, but Harriet isn t so sure she wants someone else to choose her path – in love and in life. When her brother decides to strike out for the Genesee Valley in western New York, Harriet decides to go with him – disguised as a boy. Their journey includes sickness, uninvited guests, and difficult emotional terrain as Harriet comes of age, realises what she wants, and accepts who she s loved all along.