The Last Runaway by Jennifer Chiaverini is a well written book about a Caucasian Quaker coming to America in 1850. She was to be married. When she caught him with another woman and then her sister died she was at a quandary what to do. She married. Her mother in law was against helping the slaves who were running away due to past legal concerns. Honor Bright continued. I enjoy such books as this! I like to think I would do the same. I would take the risk and see another human and reach out to he...

Inspiring and realistic. A heart warming tale of one woman's unexpected journey to ferry runaway slaves along the Underground Railroad and saving her soul and self in the process.

Honor Bright follows her sister Grace over to America in 1850. She crosses the sea in the Adventurer and makes her slow way to Faithwell, Ohio. She meets despair and tragedy along the way and quickly finds herself in an uncomfortable situation almost as quickly as she arrives. Honor is a Quaker and lives within her community of Friends. She finds that Faithwell is a stop for runaway slaves from the South on their North Star path to Oberlin and onto Canada. I enjoyed each chapter ended with a let...

A Quaker girl from England landed up in Faithwell, Ohio, 1850, right in the middle of the Underground Railroad's path. Heartsick and homesick, Honor Haymaker struggled to wrap her mind around the slavery laws of America and the way it was applied in the northern states. Milking cows, sewing quilts, making hay, bottling the bounty of summer for the harsh uncompromising winters, tapping maple trees for syrup, making cheese, obeying her mother-in-law, and being a good wife, drained her from everyth...

Honor volgt haar zus die gaat trouwen in Amerika. Honor gaat met haar mee omdat haar verloofde in eens voor een andere vrouw koos. Aangekomen in Amerika sterft haar zus onderweg naar haar toekomstige man. Verloren en met geen andere keus dan door te gaan gaat Honor op weg naar de verloofde van haar zus.🦔🦔🦔Ze sluit vriendschap met twee uitzonderlijke vrouwen en raakt betrokken bij de illegale praktijken van de Underground Railroad, een beweging die ontsnapte slaven helpt te vluchten naar het v...

Simply put, this is one of the BEST historical novels I have ever read.The plot: After being jilted by her fiance in England, Quaker woman Honor Bright decides to accompany her sister Grace to America and help Grace adjust to her upcoming marriage and impending life as a pioneer woman. But when tragedy befalls them, Honor finds herself alone in a strange country, dependent on the kindness of strangers and trying to learn the customs of 1850s Ohio--still a rough and wild place. Furthermore, she h...

Oh, goodreads. Why does thee not allow for a half star rating? If thy did, I would give this book a solid 2.5 star rating. For the cover-art, I would give thy a 5 star rating. But I digress. Tracy Chevalier's latest book examines the Quakers' role in the Underground Railroad during the mid-1800s. We see this time period through the eyes of one Honor Bright, a recent emigrate from England. Honor is a twenty year old who (like most twenty somethings) finds it is one thing to profess moral ideals a...

I did not like this as much as I thought I would. I like Chevalier, I like Historical Fiction, and I adore books of this period. That's why the book gets a three star rating from me, but it leans towards the lower end of the 3. The book's weakness to me is the wishy-washy main character Honor Bright. She drifts along with events, believes in Silence so much that she doesn't seem to have any thoughts, and above all she didn't make me believe that she was sincere. Honor Bright is an English Quaker...

I am trying to figure out today what made this book so unputdownable last night (I was up reading it until I finished at 3am) and the only thing I can come up with is the character of Honor Bright. She is such a sympathetic character and I wanted to know what happened to her.The Last Runaway is the story of Honor Bright, a young Quaker woman who leaves England to escape an unpleasant past that is not of her own doing, and her attempt to fit into the American society in a small town in Ohio. Ther...

This novel was enjoyable enough. However, reading it gives one a sensation of floating atop the story - nothing pulls a person in or attaches itself to the reader's emotions. The story is just too light. The first hundred pages are largely given over to quilting patterns and sewing techniques, which is fine enough if one has a taste for such thorough narrations of domestique intricacies; but a reader choosing this book based on the cover description would be disappointed. It leaves one to believ...