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Label

Bound

Statement of responsibility

Sally Gunning

Creator

• trueGunning, Sally

Subject

• trueHistorical fiction
• trueMassachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
• History
• Massachusetts
• Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction
• true1750s -- 1750 -- 1759
• trueCape Cod, Massachusetts
• Cape Cod (Mass.) -- Fiction
• Fiction
• Indentured servants
• trueHistorical fiction
• Indentured servants -- Fiction
• trueIndentured servants
• Massachusetts -- Cape Cod

Genre

• Fiction
• trueHistorical fiction
• trueHistory

Language

eng

Summary

Seven-year-old Alice Cole travels with her family from 1756 London to the New World, dreaming of a big house in Philadelphia and a new life. Her mother and brothers die on board and are buried at sea; the ship docks in Boston rather than Philadelphia; there, her father indentures her for 11 years without a backward glance. Alice does housework for the family of Simeon Morton of Dedham, in whose house she is treated almost like a second daughter, becoming constant companion to 10-year-old Abigail, or Nabby. When Nabby marries Emery Verley of Medfield, Alice's indenture is signed over to him, but the Verley household turns out to be an abusive one. Alice flees and winds up on Satucket, Cape Cod, where a couple gives her shelter and a job. Alice works hard for them, and they grow fond of her, but when Alice discovers she's pregnant, she embarks on a journey of deceit and lies, one that comes to a bitter end

Cataloging source

BTCTA

Dewey number

813.6

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

adult