Savage Lands
Clare Clark

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an interview with Clare Clark
Historicalnovels.info (scroll down the page)

a review of Savage Lands
The Washington Post

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synopsis

It is 1704 and, in the swamps of Louisiana, France is clinging to its new colony with less than two hundred men. Into this hostile land comes Elisabeth Savaret, one of twenty-three women sent from Paris to marry men they have never met. With little expectation of happiness, Elisabeth is stunned to find herself falling passionately in love with her husband, infantryman Jean-Claude Babelon. But Babelon is a dangerous man to love.

Witness to Elisabeth’s devotion is another of his acolytes, Auguste, a young boy dispatched to act as a go-between with the ‘redskins’. When both Elisabeth and Auguste find their love challenged by Babelon’s duplicity, the consequences are devastating.

Clare Clark

is the author of The Great Stink (longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction) and The Nature of Monsters. Born in 1967, she graduated from Cambridge with a double first in history. She lives in London with her husband and two children.