PELICAN GIRLS (PB)

Paris, 1720. The Hospice of La Salpêtrière is overrun with 'difficult' women. On the American frontier, French settlers seek wives. At the asylum, a list is drawn up: eighty-eight women to be shipped to New Orleans. Among them are Charlotte, Geneviève, and Pétronille - a sharp-tongued orphan, an accused abortionist, and a rumored madwoman. They make the voyage over the ocean, knowing nothing of the harsh and extraordinary lives that await them, or how they will come to love and betray each other time and again in this wild and beautiful land.