{"product_id":"the-bird-healers-daughter","title":"The Bird Healer's Daughter","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of the bestselling novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Sister’s Tale\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Bird Healer’s Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e is a richly imagined historical novel inspired by Canada’s first woman lawyer. Set during the final years of the Age of Sail, the novel follows a group of remarkable women as they fight for justice, equality, and a better future for women and children. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUrsa is a resourceful, unwed mother who sews men’s shirts to support herself and her daughter in a modest Saint John flat. Lucy is an idealistic young woman from nearby Pleasant Valley who dreams of becoming a lawyer and seeks independence by working in a cotton mill. When Lucy rescues Ursa’s elderly pug, their seemingly dissimilar lives become interwoven until one day Ursa is forced to make a decision that threatens tragic consequences for herself, her child, and the entirety of Lucy’s family. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeth Powning returns to the Victorian landscape she so intricately built in \u003ci\u003eThe Sea Captain’s Wife\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Sister’s Tale\u003c\/i\u003e, ushering readers into a world of warmth, comfort, and possibility, but also fraught with imminent danger. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cb\u003eBeth Powning\u003c\/b\u003e lives in New Brunswick, Canada. She is the author of four novels and three books of literary non-fiction, as well as articles, essays, and blog posts. A full-time writer, she gives presentations, sings in a chorus, serves on boards and committees, makes baskets, and tends gardens. Her last novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Sister’s Tale\u003c\/i\u003e, was an immediate Canadian bestseller, hitting #3 on both \u003ci\u003eThe Toronto Star\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e bestsellers lists. It also won the 2022 New Brunswick Book Award for fiction, which called it “a meticulously rendered imagining of one household at a pivotal point in the province’s social and legal evolution. Balanced and precise, the prose ushers the reader into a bygone world that couldn’t feel more current or more urgent.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e244 pages\u003cbr\u003ePub date: April 6, 2027\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Beth Powning","offers":[{"title":"Paperback\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;9781773105109\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;$26","offer_id":50588707750127,"sku":"9781773105109","price":26.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1403\/7679\/files\/9781773105109_FC_edb310ac-a4d0-48f5-9d86-b42c62149425.jpg?v=1789808013","url":"https:\/\/gooselane.com\/products\/the-bird-healers-daughter","provider":"Goose Lane Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}