![]() A new law is passed in Parliament that forbids the Quakers from meeting at all, and when they continue to meet for worship, they are arrested and imprisoned. ![]() This angers his father, who blames Susanna. Because of his attraction to Susanna, William begins attending the meetings for worship and becomes genuinely interested in the beliefs of the Friends. Susanna catches the eye of William, the son of a wealthy merchant. To help support her family she goes to work in a nearby town for a Quaker widow who has a print shop. Susanna is from a Quaker family and the story opens as her father has been imprisoned for his faith. ![]() The story is told in alternating chapters narrated by Susanna and by William. American YAs may not know much about the civil war in England, Cromwell, the Restoration and so forth, but they will be able to relate to a story of romantic love-especially a forbidden love between two adolescents. To quote the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, November 2004: First published in England, this historical fiction is set in small English towns in 1662, at a time of great prosecution of Quakers. ![]()
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