The Indigo Girl: A Novel by Natasha Boyd. Blackstone Publishing, 2017. Adult Historical fiction.In 1739, it becomes necessary for Colonel Lucas to return to Antigua from America, he leaves his sixteen year old daughter Eliza in charge of their three plantations including slaves. With the son and heir in boarding school in England and her mother a less than stalwart presence, Eliza becomes a capable manager. With rice crops losing value and timber taking years to grow, she begins an indigo crop after learning how much the French pay for the dye. Undercut at every turn, but with the help of a few others, she has much to learn.
Based on the life of a true woman, the author provides a few poems, prayers, and letters from one of South Carolina's true heroines. The state flag is blue after all!! The only negative, small but which drove this reader crazy, were the grammatical errors involving he and I and him and me. Eliza seems to have not made any other errors so it must have been a poor editing job that mars a terrific story well told.
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