Weaving a tapestry of fact and fiction, Sara Donati's epic novel sweeps us into another time and place . Into the Wilderness Book Summary and Study Guide Detailed plot synopsis reviews of Into the Wilderness Spinster Elizabeth Middleton, 29 years old, arrives in a small colonial town in the United States called Paradise, with her father, Judge Middleton, and her brother, Julian. This wonderful conclusion to the Into the Wilderness series takes place in 1824 Paradise, New York, a small but growing village which, due to the author's descriptive writing, almost becomes a character in and of itself.
The book tells the story of a twenty-nine-year-old Englishwoman, Elizabeth Middleton, who travels to a remote area of New York State in 1792, to take up residence there with her father and brother. Elizabeth lives in England as part of the comfortable upper-class. It is December of 1792. Into the Wilderness is the gripping first novel in the popular Wilderness series by Sara Donati! Into the Wilderness (under my pen name, Sara Donati) came into being because I wanted to read stories of the women on the New York frontier in the post revolutionary period. Since no one else seemed inclined to write those stories, I began to consider writing one after re … The main character in this novel is Elizabeth Middleton. Elizabeth Middleton leaves her comfortable English estate to join her family in a remote New York mountain village. As Sara Donati she is the author of the Wilderness series, six historical novels that follow the fortunes of a group of families living in the vast forests in upstate New York from about 1792-1825, with particular attention to the War of 1812. In ‘Into the Wilderness’ characters make brief mention of a Scot turned Indian called Ian, and his ‘white witch’ aunt Claire, and her big red-haired husband. Her most recent novel is The Gilded Hour.. -Diana Gabaldon "Into the Wilderness", is an epic story set in the late 1700s, about a young English woman named Elizabeth who decides to travel to the vast wilderness of New York in search of adventure and change. She is the internationally bestselling author of the Wilderness series (Into the Wilderness, Dawn on a Distant Shore, Lake in the Clouds, Fire Along the Sky, Queen of Swords, and The Endless Forest) as well as The Gilded Hour, the first in a new series following the descendants of characters from the Wilderness series. This thin relation to ‘Outlander’ would have guaranteed Gabaldon readers would make the trek to Donati’s series, which is the reason I picked up ‘Into the Wilderness’. Under the pen name Sara Donati I am the author of the Wilderness series, six historical novels that follow the fortunes of a group of families living in upstate New York from about 1792-1825. The first edition of the novel was published in August 3rd 1998, and was written by Sara Donati. This novel is in the historical fiction genre.
and into a breathtaking story of love and survival in a land of savage beauty. The sequel, Where the Light Enters, will be out in 2019 with Penguin/Berkley.