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New York Orphan
by Rosemary J. Kind
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GENRE: Historical Fiction
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BLURB:
From
fleeing the Irish Potato Famine, to losing his parents on the ship to New York,
seven-year-old Daniel Flynn knows about adversity. As Daniel sings the songs of
home to earn pennies for food, pick-pocket Thomas Reilly becomes his ally and
friend, until he too is cast out onto the street.
A destitute
refugee in a foreign land, Daniel, together with Thomas and his sister Molly,
are swept up by the Orphan Train Movement to find better lives with families
across America. For Daniel will the dream prove elusive?
How
strong are bonds of loyalty when everything is at stake?
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EXCERPT THREE:
“Oh,
Miss Ellie, Miss Ellie…” Molly was panting hard as she ran up the steps of the
guest house, calling for her friend. “Oh, you’ll never guess what.” Her hands
were shaking uncontrollably and she was gasping for air.
“Sit
down, child, and start from the beginning.”
“It’s
Daniel. Oh, Miss Ellie, he needs our help. I do believe the good Lord has sent
us to him in his hour of need.”
“Whatever
has happened?” Ellie guided Molly to sit upon the settle.
“I
was in the town… wondering whatever we should do. Oh, it’s dreadful!”
Miss
Ellie quietly rose and left the room, returning only a minute or two later with
a tray of tea. “I’d just asked for this to be prepared when you came back. It
looks to me, girl, as though you’re in need of it.” She poured the tea and held
the cup to Molly’s trembling hands.
Molly
sipped her drink, sat back, took a deep breath and began again. “Daniel is in
prison, Miss Ellie. Whatever are we going to do?”
She
told Miss Ellie the tale of how she’d met Ben and then how he’d gone to make
enquiries. “Anyway, one of the Deputies was there and he told the man about
Daniel.”
“Lord
have mercy, whatever has he done?”
“He
ran away from that dreadful man we met at the farm. Oh, how can one man think
he has the right to own another in these times?”
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Rosemary’s very cute puppy, Wilma!!!
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GUEST POST:
Fierce Female Lead Characters: How to Create Strong Role Models
in Books
New
York Orphan, and the whole of this series, features strong female lead
characters.
I
think it’s essential to differentiate between feisty and aggressive in their
views. I try to portray a wide range of women who are gutsy, but function
effectively within normal everyday situations. You can be an effective role
model and be married, be a mother, pursue a career or support a partner’s
career. Strength is not the same as dominance.
New
York Orphan has Molly, a girl who defies what is considered acceptable to
rescue her brother and friend from poverty. She goes on to be an incredibly
resilient and balanced young woman, who falls in love and works well within the
team of marriage, with a man who shows understanding and appreciation of her
strength. Her guardian, when Molly is a child, is a woman farmer, Miss Ellie,
who is single because of the difficulties of finding a man who will nurture her
independence rather than quash it. Miss Ellie, later in the series, gets
involved in the fight for women’s suffrage and we see her rugged nature, whilst
her tender side comes through when she becomes an honorary grandmother.
Oddly,
I would argue that one of the strongest women in New York Orphan is Mrs
Hawksworth. The reader doesn’t see it early on. What the reader sees is a woman
scared of her husband, but without the reader knowing why. They see her helping
Daniel when she thinks it is safe to do so and then trying to stand up for him
and facing the consequences. However, what we see ultimately is her having the
courage to testify against her husband when Daniel stands trial, an action
which in 1860 would leave her not only in fear for her life, but an outcast.
To me
it is important to show that ultimately strong women will do what is right.
They don’t belittle the men around them or treat them in a reversal of the
subjugation many women have been exposed to. They are spirited, able to manage
their lives, but not afraid to open themselves to the good people around them.
What
is important is equality. It might be a hard won right, but it should not
involve going on to fight everything and everyone around for the sake of it. I
want to create role models that show men and women as equals not opponents.
Of
course, to produce a well-rounded work not every woman can stand out as feisty
and strong any more than every man should. Nor should every man be shown as the
villain. We want our sons to emulate the good men in the world, as much as we
want our daughters to be courageous and independent.
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AUTHOR BIO:
Rosemary J. Kind writes because she has to.
You could take almost anything away from her except her pen and paper. Failing
to stop after the book that everyone has in them, she has gone on to publish
books in both non-fiction and fiction, the latter including novels, humour,
short stories and poetry. She also regularly produces magazine articles in a
number of areas and writes regularly for the dog press.
As a
child she was desolate when at the age of 10 her then teacher would not believe
that her poem based on ‘Stig of the Dump’ was her own work and she stopped
writing poetry for several years as a result. She was persuaded to continue by the
invitation to earn a little extra pocket money by ‘assisting’ others to produce
the required poems for English homework!
Always
one to spot an opportunity, she started school newspapers and went on to begin
providing paid copy to her local newspaper at the age of 16.
For
twenty years she followed a traditional business career, before seeing the
error of her ways and leaving it all behind to pursue her writing full-time.
She
spends her life discussing her plots with the characters in her head and her faithful
dogs, who always put the opposing arguments when there are choices to be made.
Always
willing to take on challenges that sensible people regard as impossible, she
established and ran the short story download site Alfie Dog Fiction for six
years building it to become one of the largest in the world, representing over
300 authors and carrying over 1600 short stories. She closed it in order to
focus on her own writing.
Her
hobby is developing the Entlebucher Mountain Dog in the UK and when she brought
her beloved Alfie back from Belgium he was only the tenth in the country.
She
started writing Alfie’s Diary as an Internet blog the day Alfie arrived to live
with her, intending to continue for a year or two. Thirteen years later it goes
from strength to strength and has been repeatedly named as one of the top ten
pet blogs in the UK.
For
more details about the author please visit her website at www.rjkind.com. For
more details about her dog then you’re better visiting www.alfiedog.me.uk.
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