The Practice House

by Laura McNeal

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Nineteen-year-old Aldine McKenna is stuck at home with her sister and aunt in a Scottish village in 1929 when two Mormon missionaries ring the doorbell. Aldine’s sister converts and moves to America to marry, and Aldine follows, hoping to find the life she’s meant to lead and the person she’s meant to love.

In New York, Aldine answers an ad soliciting a teacher for a one-room schoolhouse in a place she can’t possibly imagine: drought-stricken Kansas. She arrives as farms on the Great Plains have begun to fail and schools are going bankrupt, unable to pay or house...Read more
  • ISBN10 1477817905
  • ISBN13 9781477817902
  • Publish Date 1 April 2017
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Amazon Publishing
  • Imprint Little A
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 492
  • Language English