Jude

The first novel in a saga of indomitable women. Poor, illiterate, mercurial - Jude Nugent is the girl who will make things happen in the 18th-century village of Croud Cantle. She is part of the women around her, yet believes herself to be unlike others. She learns to read from a corn clerk and begins to understand the corrupt agricultural system that keeps them in their place – and who loves rebellious Will, the Irishman with the fire of a new world in his eyes.