Sara Donati · 2004 · overland
Sara Donati's 2004 novel. The War of 1812 reaches the mountains: Daniel Bonner is taken prisoner by the British, his twin sister Lily has gone to Montreal to study, and a widowed cousin arrives from Scotland. Hannah, back from the west and barely speaking, has to go north again to get her brother out of a prison island in the Richelieu.
- 1Paradise
War is declared and the young men of Paradise go, Daniel among them - while his twin Lily chafes at a village that has nothing to teach her, and Hannah comes home from the western country with injuries nobody can see.
- 2Montreal
Lily goes north to Montreal to study art and to be somewhere that is not Paradise, and finds a city on the wrong side of a war her family is fighting - and her own reasons for staying getting harder to explain in letters home.
- 3Nut Island
Daniel is taken prisoner and held at Nut Island in the Richelieu, and Hannah goes to the British garrison to get him out - working as a healer among the sick of both armies until she can find a way to move him.
- 4Paradise
They bring him home to Paradise with an arm that will never work again, and the family assembles round what the war has cost - and Hannah, who has spent the book unable to speak of her own losses, finally does.