<p><i>Beginning Again</i> is a sequel to <i>Escape: Adventures of a Loyalist Family</i>, Mary Beacock Fryer's historical novel for ten to fourteen-year-olds. This new work chronicles the lives of the Seamans as they make a new start in Canada.</p> <p>The main theme is the building, by Caleb, the father, and his sons Cade, Sam and Ned, of a huge timber raft. Along the way they have many other adventures - a brush with the supernatural, a visit by a wealthy uncle, a return to the family home on Long Island by Ned and his mother, Martha.</p> <p>The climax is the raft journey to Quebec by Caleb, with Cade, Sam, Ned and Elizabeth as crew, and the sale of their logs. While on a shopping spree in Montreal, Elizabeth is the belle at a ball.</p> <p>The Seamans also get the better of an enemy, to Ned's satisfaction - and that of the many readers of the first Seaman family novel.</p> <p>Even those who have not read Escape will be delighted with this exciting adventure.</p>
