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\nFi nding Flora by Elinor Florence
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Scottish newcomer Flora Craigie jumps from a moving train in 1905 to escape her abusive husband. Desperate to disappear\, she claims a homes tead on the beautiful but wild Alberta prairie\, determined to create a ne w life for herself. She is astonished to find that her nearest neighbours are also female: a Welsh widow with three children\; two American women ra ising chickens\; and a MeÌtis woman who supports herself by training wi ld horses. While battling both the brutal environment and the local cynici sm toward female farmers\, the five women with their very different backgr ounds struggle to find common ground. But when their homes are threatened with expropriation by a hostile government\, they join forces to "fire the heather\," a Scottish term meaning to raise a ruckus. To complicate matte rs\, there are signs that Flora's violent husband is still hunting for her . And as the competition for free land along the new Canadian Pacific Rail way line heats up\, an unscrupulous land agent threatens not only Flora's livelihood\, but her very existence.
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