Martha Conway

author of The Underground River

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On Sale June 20, 2017

  • “The Underground River is a riveting and atmospheric novel about slavery, betrayal and redemption."

    —Louisa Treger, author of The Lodger

  • “Warning: The Underground River is a page-turner. Be prepared to stay up late reading, because once you start you won’t want to put it down."

    —Amy Belding Brown,
    author of Flight of the Sparrow

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ABOUT THE BOOK

Set aboard a nineteenth century riverboat theater, this is the moving, page-turning story of a charmingly frank and naive seamstress who is blackmailed into saving runaways on the Underground Railroad, jeopardizing her freedom, her livelihood, and a new love…Read More

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Martha Conway is the author of several novels, including Thieving Forest, which won the North American Book Award in Historical Fiction and an Independent Publishers Book Award. It has been called “extraordinary” by the Akron Beacon Journal and “hypnotic” by Kirkus Reviews. Her first novel was nominated for an Edgar Award, and her short fiction has appeared in the Iowa Review, Mississippi Review, The Quarterly, Carolina Quarterly, and other publications…Read More

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