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My Name Is Resolute

by Nancy E. Turner
Thomas Dunne: St. Martin's. Feb. 2014. 560p. ISBN 9781250036599. $27.99; ebk. ISBN 9781250036582. F
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Turner's (These Is My Words; Sarah's Quilt; The Star Garden) latest historical novel follows Resolute Talbot after she's kidnapped by pirates from her family's Jamaica plantation. Enslaved at the age of nine and brought to New England in 1729, the aristocrat's daughter struggles to survive in a harsh new world. Once freed, Resolute learns to rely on her spinning and weaving for an income and marries a wonderful man but later gets enmeshed in the beginnings of the American Revolution. Throughout her life, Resolute must reconcile her belief in being just and honest with the horrors others inflict on her.
VERDICT Every page of Turner's engrossing and fascinating work is better than the last. Not only historical fiction fans will love this beautifully written and compelling novel.
Reviewed by Audrey Jones, Washington, DC , Dec 01, 2013
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