Haole Wife


LOOKING TO PLACE A BULK ORDER?CLICK HERE

Piracy-free
Piracy-free
Assured Quality
Assured Quality
Secure Transactions
Secure Transactions
Fast Delivery
Fast Delivery
Sustainably Printed
Sustainably Printed
Delivery Options
Please enter pincode to check delivery time.
*COD & Shipping Charges may apply on certain items.
Review final details at checkout.

About The Book

Attempting to flee her shameful past as an unwed mother Ina Marie leaves her home state of Iowa and lands a teaching job in Hawaii. Thats where she meets Dr. Clyde McNeill and they are married in the summer of 1920. Ina Marie enjoys the small privileges afforded to a plantation doctors wife and she appreciates the time she gets to spend with her daughter Leilani. But that bliss changes on a stormy night in 1923. While Clyde is treating a patient he drowns leaving Ina Marie and Leilani alone to fend for themselves. Evicted from the plantation home Ina Marie must make a new life for her and her daughter. Against the backdrop of the times and the sugar plantation culture of Hawaii Ina Marie navigates through the full wave of events driven by the forces of Prohibition. Its also a time when automobiles are just becoming a more common means of travel and women have achieved their voting rights. A work of historical fiction Haole Wife by author Margaret Drake tells the story of one woman and what it takes to survive in the Prohibition Era of the 1920s on Hawaii Island.
downArrow

Details