Based on real history and alternating between the story of war widow Alice searching for identity in the 1940s and excerpts from Eleanor Dares Commonplace Book and the tale of her harrowing survival, The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare explores the meaning of female history and the sacrifices every mother makes for her daughter.The fate of the world is often driven by the curiosity of a girl.In 1937, a large stone covered in strange markings made headlines. Scholars quickly determined it was a message written hundreds of years ago and signed by "EWD," presumably Eleanor White Dare, the daughter of the colonial governor of Roanoke. The entire Roanoke colony had vanished in the late sixteenth century and The Dare Stone, as it came to be called, seemingly revealed the sorry fate of the colonists as well as that of Eleanor, who miraculously survived.War widow Alice Young knew the secret of the Dare Stone long before the carved rock became frontpage news because the stone had sat, for centuries, at Evertell, her familys estate outside of Savannah, until it disappeared during the summer she turned thirteen. The story of Eleanor Dares miraculous survival is Young family lore, long preserved in both a singsong verse Alice learned as a child and in a book passed down through the generations of women descended from Eleanor and her daughter, Agnes. Alice had been next in line to receive the book that longago summer, but everything changed when the stone and book vanished. Her mother...

Binding: Paperback;464 pages; Publisher: Thomas Nelson, Inc.; Classification: N/A; Weight: 704.68 g; Dimensions: N/A

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