Pelican Girls

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'Stunning, moving, and remarkable' - Nguyen Phan Que Mai, bestselling author. 'A celebration of complicity and love among women' - Pilar Quintana, National Book Award shortlisted author. 'I haven't been this swept away by historical fiction since Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet' - Jess Walter, bestselling author. Set in Paris in 1720, the Hospice of La Salpetriere is filled with 'difficult' women. Meanwhile, on the American frontier, French settlers seek wives. A list is created of eighty-eight women of childbearing age to be sent to New Orleans. Among them are Charlotte, Genevieve, and Petronille—a sharp-tongued orphan, an accused abortionist, and a rumored madwoman. They embark on a journey across the ocean, unaware of the harsh and extraordinary lives that await them, or how their relationships will evolve through love and betrayal in this wild land. Bold and thrilling, this narrative offers a powerful vision of female friendship, identity, and desire, highlighting the choices women make in their unshakeable will to survive. For fans of Barbara Kingsolver, Lauren Groff, and Yiyun Li's The Book of Goose. 'A tale of female friendship unlike any I've come across before, Julia Malye's inspired-by-a-true-story work is an incredible feat of research and daring fiction' - Elle's Best (and Most Anticipated) Fiction Books of 2024.