A young woman from New York society, suddenly ruined, marries, almost without thinking, Duncan McKail, a former engineer of Scottish descent who has become a wheat farmer in western Canada. She discovers her new life: a plank shack in the middle of the prairie, a Swedish farmhand, the hens, the cooking and the loneliness.
She tells it all, day after day, in a diary addressed to her friend Matilda Anne, with a humour and frankness that make her very endearing.
Written as a diary, in a lively, natural tone, the novel is easy to read in the language you are learning.
