Brian Lloyd French talks about his new book "Tintamarre"

We spoke with Brian Lloyd French, author of “Tintamarre”:

“Mathilde and Acquila Girouard live a pastoral life with their three children on the shores of the Bay of Fundy.
They have a small herd of cows and sheep and a few pigs and supplement the food they grow with the bounty of the bay and the geese in the air.
All in all, though life is hard, they live in paradise.
Until events thousands of miles away change everything…
Suddenly they are in the middle of a battleground.
The English and French are in a struggle to control the New World and take its resources. And the little village of Beaubassin was exactly at the crossroads and the cross hairs of the coming war.
Mati and ‘Quila are pulled in both directions. 
Their priest is a fierce defender of the French presence and his Church and would break all the rules to get his way; even arrange mass slaughters.
At first, the English want the Acadians to stay and continue to grow food and help feed the burgeoning population in New England. But then they get tired of the challenges and look for a final solution.
The Girouards are stuck in the middle.
The way they live, what they have built, even their lives, are at risk.
They need to risk everything to keep anything.
Tintamarre! follows the Girouards and their fellow villagers across the River Mesagoueche, through the Siege of Beausejour and the tragedy of the Expulsion. 
Will they lose each other in the turmoil and survive a terrifying voyage and find a new home in the southern territories?
Or will they be one more statistic of the hundreds of Acadians who died in this terrible historic event.”

You can buy the book here!

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