“I just finished reading ‘Escape from Bunker Hill.’ This is a historical novel about the Underground Railroad with a particular emphasis on the role played by people in Maine. The Maine characters are real. The author, Dale Potter-Clark, hews to the historical record where it exists and uses her novelist license to fill in the gaps where the historical record is silent. The novel succeeds in pulling the reader into the historical period with a compelling narrative. It moves along nicely, because the supporting historical detail has been provided in the form of appendices so that those who don’t want it can just read the novel.
The novel was self-published in 2022 in Vassalboro, Maine, and is available in softcover from crossings4u@gmail.com. The ISBN number is 978-1-7293-9153-8.”—VERNARD ADAMS, Stockton Springs
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