{"product_id":"9781472298225-secondhand-pelican-girls","title":"Pelican Girls","description":"'Stunning, moving, and remarkable' Nguyen Phan Que Mai , internationally bestselling author of  The Mountains Sing  and  Dust Child 'A celebration of complicity and love among women'   Pilar Quintana , shortlisted for the National Book Award, author of  The Bitch  and  Abyss 'I haven't been this swept away by a piece of historical fiction since Maggie O'Farrell's  Hamnet'  Jess Walter , bestselling author of  Beautiful Ruins   Paris, 1720. The Hospice of La Salpetriere is overrun with 'difficult' women.    Halfway around the world, on the American frontier, French settlers are in want of wives. At the asylum, a list is drawn up: eighty-eight women of childbearing age to be shipped to New Orleans. Among them are Charlotte, Genevieve and Petronille - a sharp-tongued orphan, an accused abortionist and a rumoured 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.   Bold, thrilling and startlingly intimate, PELICAN GIRLS is a powerful vision of female friendship, identity and desire, and the choices women make in their unshakeable will to survive .  For readers of Barbara Kingsolver, Lauren Groff and  The Book of Goose  by Yiyun Li. 'A tale of female friendship unlike any I've come across before, Julia Malye's inspired-by-a-true-story Pelican Girls is as incredible a feat of research as it is a daring work of fiction'  Elle's Best (and Most Anticipated) Fiction Books of 2024","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48905406054619,"sku":"9781472298225-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/99ba1c30-d3ac-477d-92d3-c16aba54bc6f.jpg?v=1782323680","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9781472298225-secondhand-pelican-girls","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}