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The Second Mrs. Hockaday - A Novel (Paperback)
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The Second Mrs. Hockaday - A Novel (Paperback)
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List price R438
Loot Price R366
Discovery Miles 3 660
You Save R72 (16%)
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"All I had known for certain when I came around the hen house that
first evening in July and saw my husband trudging into the yard
after lifetimes spent away from us, a borrowed bag in his hand and
the shadow of grief on his face, was that he had to be protected at
all costs from knowing what had happened in his absence. I did not
believe he could survive it." When Major Gryffth Hockaday is called
to the front lines of the Civil War, his new bride is left to care
for her husband's three-hundred-acre farm and infant son. Placidia,
a mere teenager herself living farfrom her family and completely
unprepared to run a farm or raise a child, must endure the darkest
days of the war on her own. By the time Major Hockaday returns two
years later, Placidia is bound for jail, accused of having borne a
child in his absence and murdering it. What really transpired in
the two years he was away? Inspired by a true incident, this saga
conjures the era with uncanny immediacy. Amid the desperation of
wartime, Placidia sees the social order of her Southern homeland
unravel as her views on race and family are transformed. A love
story, a story of racial divide, and a story of the South as it
fell in the war, The Second Mrs. Hockaday reveals how that
generation--and the next--began to see their world anew.
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