| Record Number |
836244 |
| ISBN |
9780749026295 (paperback) |
| Author |
Kline, Christina Baker, 1964- author. |
| Title |
The exiles / Christina Baker Kline. |
| Publisher/Date |
London : Allison & Busby, 2020. |
| ©2020 |
| Pagination etc. |
382 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary Note |
London, 1840. Evangeline lost more than just her position as a governess when she was accused of stealing, realising she was pregnant by her employer’s son. Having languished in Newgate prison for months in her condition, she is now destined for a prison ship heading to Australia. On board, Evangeline befriends Hazel, sentenced to seven years’ transport for theft. Soon Hazel's path will cross with an orphaned indigenous girl. Mathinna is 'adopted' by the new governor of Tasmania where the family treat her more like a curiosity than a child. Amid hardships and cruelties, new life will take root in stolen soil, friendships will define lives, and some will find their place in a new society in the land beyond the seas. |
| Subject |
Women convicts -- Fiction |
| Convict ships -- Fiction |
| Pregnant women -- Fiction |
| Women prisoners -- Fiction |
| Female friendship -- Fiction |
| Penal transportation -- Tasmania -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction |
| Exiles -- Tasmania -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Fiction |
| Australia -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction |
| Tasmania -- Social conditions -- 1803-1900 -- Fiction |
| Historical fiction. |
| Shelf Location |
F KLIN |
