The Last Runaway

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Addictively compelling The Times

A joy to read Maggie OFarrell
Honor Bright is a sheltered Quaker who has rarely ventured out of 1850s Dorset when she impulsively emigrates to America. Opposed to the slavery that defines and divides the country, she finds her principles tested to the limit when a runaway slave appears at the farm of her new family. In this tough, unsentimental place, where whisky bottles sit alongside quilts, Honor befriends two spirited women who will teach her how to turn ideas into action.

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I have always admired Tracy Chevalier's un-showy brilliance, and this moving story of a young English Quaker girl trapped between duty and conscience in 1850s Ohio is the best thing she's written since Girl with a Pearl Earring Rose Tremain

The Last Runaway is a joy to read. Chevalier handles the intersection of two stories those of pioneering Quakers and escaping slaves with verve, imagination and, above all, compassion Maggie OFarrell

A brave, warm-hearted, moving book; the characters are well-drawn and credible; the local colour meticulously detailed Joanne Harris

By far her best book since Girl With A Pearl Earring if not better Amanda Craig

Chevalier places her heroine at the heart, constructing a synergy between character and plot that makes this novel exquisitely complete addictively compelling Honor Bright deserves a sequel THE TIMES

Her best since Girl With a Pearl Earring as a serious novel about a genuine moral dilemma, it is highly recommended THE INDEPENDENT

Chevalier immerses herself in period and place. Her research, as always, is meticulous and lightly worn an entertaining read THE GUARDIAN

Chevaliers eye for the telling detail brings it vividly to life. As simple and plain as a Quaker bonnet, but, like a Quaker soul, it contains a hidden light LITERARY REVIEW

A gripping and potent novel which shows Chevalier at the height of her powers THE EXPRESS

Tracy Chevalier has found a subject that both fascinates and moves her and the result is this quietly powerful and gripping novel THE MAIL

An accomplished historical novelist, and she successfully evokes the texture of life in the antebellum Midwest INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

Author Bio

Tracy Chevalier is the author of ten novels, including At the Edge of the Orchard, Remarkable Creatures and Girl with a Pearl Earring, an international bestseller that has sold over five million copies and won the Barnes and Noble Discover Award. Born in Washington DC, in 1984 she moved to London, where she lives with her husband and son.