The Woman with the Stone Knife

Dale Neal

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English

Addison & Highsmith Publishers
15 January 2025

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

THE WOMAN WITH THE STONE KNIFE imagines the life of a Cherokee woman exiled for 20 years in Georgian England, torn between two worlds and two choices. Remain in London to avenge her husband'

s death or reunite with the son she left behind in the Cherokee mountains.

Helena Ostenaco Timberlake steps into history in 1786 when she petitions the British crown to return to newly independent America. Was she really the wife of a white soldier, Lt. Henry Timberlake, who had visited the Cherokee in 1762 and the daughter of the Cherokee war chief Ostenaco who had visited King George III?

Widely researched and deeply imagined, The Woman with the Stone Knife follows the life of this mysterious woman. She was born Skitty in the Overhills towns of the Cherokee. Following Timberlake, Skitty leaves behind her infant son and makes the arduous Atlantic crossing, only to find herself abandoned in England after Timberlake'

s death in debtor'

s prison in 1765.

By: Dale Neal
Imprint: Addison & Highsmith Publishers
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781592114665
ISBN 10: 1592114660
Pages: 250
Publication Date: 15 January 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dale Neal is the author of Appalachian Book of the Dead, shortlisted for the Thomas Wolfe Literary Award; Cow Across America, winner of the Novello Literary Award; The Half-Life of Home; and Kings of Coweetsee, to be published in summer 2024 by Regal House. His short stories, reviews and essays have appeared in Our State, Smoky Mountain Living, Still, North Carolina Literary Review, Appalachian Journal, Carolina Quarterly and elsewhere. He worked for four decades as an award-winning journalist at the Asheville Citizen-Times. He earned an MFA in creative writing at Warren Wilson College.

Reviews for The Woman with the Stone Knife

With authentic and precise historical detail, Dale Neal has brought to life Mrs. Helena Ostenaco Timberlake, a Cherokee woman who is exiled in England after following her British husband back to London. Neal captures both the Cherokee and British elements in this fascinating woman, who is caught between two languages, two cultures, and two desires. Although it is set during the time of the Revolutionary War, this is in so many ways a modern story. No one who meets Mrs. Ostenaco Timberlake will ever forget her. Terry Roberts, author of The Sky Club and That Bright Land.