Title: The Orphan of Manhattan - Marie-Bernadette Dupuy - book
Summary :
New York is their promised land. Leaving their native Charente in the fall of 1886 to board a ship bound for the New World, Guillaume and Catherine are eager for a new life. Yet their dream of freedom quickly turns into a nightmare. Soon, their daughter Élisabeth is left to fend for herself in the heart of the immense American city.
After wandering through Central Park for a night, the little girl is hit by the wealthy Woolworths' carriage. The couple nurses her back to health and decides to keep this adorable child, who seems to have come out of nowhere, with them.
Elizabeth grew up pampered, like a princess. But when the woman now known as Lisbeth Woolworth learned the truth about her adoption on her sixteenth birthday, the shock was terrible. The young girl had only one idea in mind:
discover the mystery of her origins that still connects her to France. Will Elisabeth succeed in untangling truth from falsehood and discover the sincere love of her family?
A multi-talented writer, Marie-Bernadette Dupuy has created an extremely rich and varied body of work, translated as far away as Russia, which has won over a large number of readers. This new suspenseful saga takes us from the Charente to the heart of New York, at the time when the first buildings of Manhattan are being erected. Through the thrilling adventures of Elisabeth, where the winds of freedom blow, Marie-Bernadette Dupuy pays a magnificent tribute to all those who have chosen to believe in their dreams.
