The Prairie Wife

A frank, tender novel told through a young woman's letters and diary as she leaves comfort behind for a hard, hopeful life on the North American prairie with the man she has married.

At a glance Written in the confiding first person, this is the intimate record of a woman remaking… What it's about The Prairie Wife unfolds as the private writings of a spirited… Far from the ease she once knew, she confronts isolation, weather, labour and the daily… What emerges is less a plot than a portrait: the slow forging of a marriage and a self…

The Prairie Wife unfolds as the private writings of a spirited, well-bred young woman who marries and follows her husband to a remote homestead on the prairie.