SYNOPSIS (cont.)

The Book of Secrets traces these journeys much as they happened through the eyes three generations of fictional women: Isabella, an independent minded Englishwoman who follows her husband to Cape Breton, and loses him there, her daughter, Annie, who follows McLeod's ways slavishly, and her daughter, Maria McClure, who offends the moral code of the community and lives in seclusion. She discovers the secrets of her past through her grandmother's letters and journals.