I picked this up for its lovely cover and interesting title as much as anything, saw it had good reviews and then bought a copy which I gave to my niece Ella as a christmas present. Then I bought another copy to read for myself. It's the story of a mistreated servant girl at the doomed and starving James River colony who murders her master and escapes to the wilderness. She manages to endure with great struggles away from humanity living alone until finally she falls down a cliffside, and is left injured and having visions until finally she passes away and returns to nature. A sad story, but one that shows humanity's capacity to endure. Not all humanity of course, I wouldn't last 5 minutes in the wilderness for starters.
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