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The Indifference of Tumbleweed

(2014)
(The first book in the Oregon Tales series)
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In 1846, thousands of people moved westwards to Oregon and California in wagon trains. This is the story of Charity Collins and the families in the Tennant Party who made the 2000-mile journey that year.

Charity and her sister Fanny are both of marriageable age, but they have very different attitudes towards the opposite sex. Charity slowly and painfully discovers her own profound ignorance during the course of the migration. Fanny, it seems, has a much clearer idea of what she wants and how to get it.

A large cast of characters comes into focus in the course of the story. The routines and demands of the constant travelling are interrupted by accidents, encounters and pauses at the various forts, but finally they arrive at the west coast. Which some might say is where the real adventures begin…

About the Author


Rebecca Tope is the author of over twenty crime novels, set in rural England. She has sold approximately one million copies around the world, and is still writing the two series set in the Cotswolds and the Lake District. This book is a new venture, planned to be the first of a trilogy.
She lives in the deepest countryside on the border between England and Wales, with a good number of animals. She also travels widely, and especially enjoys prolonged trips to America, where she is addicted to driving across the emptier states in the west and New England.
She also runs writing workshops, and acts as mentor to aspiring writers.
See www.rebeccatope.com



Genre: Historical

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