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“With extraordinary scholarship and painstaking use of contemporary texts, Potter succeeds in her professed task of bearing witness to the lives of young women unknown to history…Full of sensational material.” Times Literary Supplement (London)
“Compelling…A pleasure to read.” BBC History Magazine
“I love this kind of historical writing, with the stitching showing. There is a story here, but it is Potter’s skillful guidance through the disparate sources that makes it work. Engaged and thoughtful, she has given her women an existence they would recognize.” Literary Review
“With her warm voice and inquisitive tone, narrator Charlotte Strevens brings listeners back to the difficult early days of the American Colonies…Strevens employs shifts in tone and pitch to evoke the relentless dangers of both the ship’s crossing and life in the colonies. Her decision to subtly emphasize the occasional direct quote keeps the story flowing, and her conversational pacing engages listeners throughout.” AudioFile
“An evocative and painstakingly researched account of these early female settlers, who have lacked a voice, an identity, even a name, until now. From 400 years ago, they step from these pages and speak to us.” The Tablet, a book of the year selection