The Woman with the Stone Knife

by Dale Neal

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Pub Date Oct 08 2024 | Archive Date Oct 02 2024

Independent Publishers Group | Addison & Highsmith Publishers

Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction

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Description

THE WOMAN WITH THE STONE KNIFE imagines the life of a Cherokee woman exiled for 20 years in Georgian England, torn between two worlds and two choices. Remain in London to avenge her husband’ s death or reunite with the son she left behind in the Cherokee mountains. Helena Ostenaco Timberlake steps into history in 1786 when she petitions the British crown to return to newly independent America. Was she really the wife of a white soldier, Lt. Henry Timberlake, who had visited the Cherokee in 1762 and the daughter of the Cherokee war chief Ostenaco who had visited King George III? Widely researched and deeply imagined, The Woman with the Stone Knife follows the life of this mysterious woman. She was born Skitty in the Overhills towns of the Cherokee. Following Timberlake, Skitty leaves behind her infant son and makes the arduous Atlantic crossing, only to find herself abandoned in England after Timberlake’ s death in debtor’ s prison in 1765.

THE WOMAN WITH THE STONE KNIFE imagines the life of a Cherokee woman exiled for 20 years in Georgian England, torn between two worlds and two choices. Remain in London to avenge her husband’...

Advance Praise

“We turn to historical novels to find the past, to see lost worlds animated again, the color and costume, the custom and civilization. But only in the best historical novels do we touch the real seething lives of the individuals who lived in those worlds. The Woman with the Stone Knife is one of these. Eighteenth century Carolinas and London spring to life in all their detail and vibrancy, but it’s Skitty’s journey, that of a woman torn between two worlds, that consumes us, the deep striving to claim her life and identity, to make the world her own at last. Lewis Buzbee, author of The Haunting of Charles Dickens and The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop
"With authentic and precise historical detail, Dale Neal has brought to life Mrs. Helena Ostenaco Timberlake, a Cherokee woman who is exiled in England after following her British husband back to London. Neal captures both the Cherokee and British elements in this fascinating woman, who is caught between two languages, two cultures, and two desires. Although it is set during the time of the Revolutionary War, this is in so many ways a modern story. No one who meets Mrs. Ostenaco Timberlake will ever forget her."
Terry Roberts, author of The Sky Club and That Bright Land.

“We turn to historical novels to find the past, to see lost worlds animated again, the color and costume, the custom and civilization. But only in the best historical novels do we touch the real...

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