Isola julia working-class family distrusts his intellectual

working-class family distrusts his intellectual ambitions and his “foreign” wife

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the extraordinary unfolds: a woman trades her newborn daughter to a wandering beekeeper for two jars of honey

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a wise Native servant woman

Isola julia working-class family distrusts his intellectualHeir to a fortune, Marguerite is destined for a life of prosperity and gentility. Then she is orphaned, and her guardianan enigmatic and volatile manspends her inheritance and insists she accompany him on an expedition to New France. Isolated and afraid, Marguerite befriends her guardians servant and the two develop an intense attraction. But when their relationship is discovered, they are brutally punished and abandoned on a small island with no hope