Nancy E. Turner writes historical fiction centred on women living through frontier hardship, family conflict and the practical demands of survival in the American West. These Is My Words is presented as the diary of Sarah Agnes Prine and follows her family's movement through the Arizona Territories in the late nineteenth century. Sarah's voice records travel, violence, marriage, motherhood, ranch life and her gradual education, giving the novel a strong sense of a life built through daily decisions rather than a single adventure. Sarah's Quilt and The Star Garden continue her story. Turner has also written My Name Is Resolute, about a young woman carried into colonial America after being captured in the Caribbean. These Is My Words is the key entry for readers of frontier historical fiction, diary-form novels and family sagas led by practical, resilient women. Read more Less