Lily Fairchild

Lily Fairchild

Lily Fairchild

Don Gutteridge

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EC Publishing LLC
Año de edición:
2019
Materia
Ficción histórica
ISBN:
9781970160697
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Lily Fairchild is born in southern Ontario in 1840 and leads a life of constant struggle against the historical forces of her time: the coming of the railroads, the discovery of oil, the Riel Rebellions, the Great War and the influenza pandemic that followed. Three marriages and two children complicate her life and against all the odds she struggle and survives, always deciding on love whenever she can. 3

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