Hold Tight the Thread

by Jane Kirkpatrick Book 3 in the Tender Ties series.

First published 2004

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By the 1840s Marie Dorion Venier Toupin is established on French Prairie as British and American settlers, missionaries, French Canadian families and disease-stricken Indigenous communities compete within a rapidly changing Oregon Country. Public conflict is matched by strain within Marie’s family as daughters question her love and a figure from the past reopens old fear.

The trilogy concludes by asking whether maternal love can remain strong without becoming possessive. Marie’s Christian understanding of unconditional love helps her hold together a family and neighbourhood that history is pulling in different directions, while acknowledging the losses carried by Indigenous people through colonisation and disease.