The Last Runaway

Tracy Chevalier's latest novel is set in a Quaker settlement in Ohio in the mid-1850s

by The Friend Newsdesk 22nd March 2013

The latest novel by award-winning writer Tracy Chevalier is set in a Quaker settlement in Ohio in the mid-1850s.  Tracy Chevalier grew up attending Quaker summer camps and her sister and stepmother joined the Religious Society of Friends. ‘I never did’, she explained in a recent interview with The Daily Telegraph, ‘But I still go to Meetings occasionally – I crave the silence.’