Hello! Please suggest a historical fiction book written by a woman. preferably something not about royal people and royal drama. something about maybe wildness of some kind/nature? leaning a little more philosophical or mystical?
thank you!
by lithiumpokes
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Not exactly “wildness” but [The Sweet Blue Distance](https://saralaughs.com/the-sweet-blue-distance/) by Sara Donati is a sequel to her Into the Wilderness series but can be read standalone. It’s the story of a nurse and midwife in the 1850s who travels from New York to Santa Fe in the New Mexico territory to take a job there. There’s a lot of interesting stuff about cross cultural issues.
The Cazalets is a book series focused around an upper middle class English family during WW2
The girl who wrote in Silk centers around a Chinese American girl living in the Pacific Northwest at the time of the Chinese Exclusion Act
The frozen river is the story of a midwife in upstate NY (?) not long after the American Revolutionary War
The Vanishing Half is about 2 twin African American girls, both light skinned, and their lives in the South starting in the 1950s
Hambet by Maggie ofarrell
– The Inhabited Woman by Gioconda Belli
– Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
– The Invisible Mountain by Carolina De Robertis
– Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende
The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson