A historical feministic epic for readers of Barbara Kingsolver The Matrix by Lauren Groff and
Maggie Shipstead's The Great Circle. Paris 1720. The Hospice of La Salpêtrière is overrun with
'difficult' women. Halfway around the world on the American frontier French settlers are in
want of wives. At the asylum a list is drawn up: eighty-eight women of childbearing age to be
shipped to New Orleans. Among them are Charlotte Geneviève and Pétronille - a sharp-tongued
orphan an accused abortionist and a rumoured madwoman. They make the voyage over the ocean
knowing nothing of the harsh and extraordinary lives that await them or how they will come to
love and betray each other time and again in this wild and beautiful land. Bold thrilling and
startling intimate PELICAN GIRLS is a powerful vision of female friendship identity and
desire and the choices women make in their unshakeable will to survive.
