The Prairie Wife

A refined Eastern woman marries and follows her husband to a rough homestead on the Canadian prairie, where she must adapt to isolation, hardship, and a very different kind of life. Told through her intimate diary, the novel captures both the loneliness and the fierce beauty of pioneer existence on the northern plains. Stringer writes with warmth and psychological insight about a marriage tested by the frontier. A vivid, heartfelt portrait of a woman remaking herself in a harsh new world, it is the first of his popular prairie trilogy.