The ripping tree / Nikki Gemmell.
Publication details: Sydney : Fourth Estate, 2021.Description: 346 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781460751992 (paperback)
- 1788-1900
- Suspense fiction
- Historical fiction
- Young women -- Australia -- Fiction
- Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of
- Colonization
- Families
- Secrecy
- Shipwreck victims
- Shipwreck victims -- Fiction
- Families -- Fiction
- Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- Fiction
- Secrecy -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
- Young women -- Fiction
- Shipwreck survival -- Australia -- Fiction
- Families -- Australia -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Colonization -- Australia -- Fiction
- Australia
- Australia -- History -- 1788-1900 -- Fiction
- Australia -- Colonization -- Fiction
- Australia -- Social life and customs -- 1788-1900 -- Fiction
- A823.4 23
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction - Historical | GEM | Available | 062833 |
"Get out. Before they save you."--Cover.
An illustrious family. A beautiful home. A shipwrecked young woman left on its door step. Don't think they're going to save her... Early 1800s. Thomasina Trelora, a wild, free-spirited young woman, is on her way to Australia. Her fate: to be married to a widowed clergyman she's never met. But as she approaches the Australian coast a storm wrecks her ship and leaves her lying on the rocks - alone, battered and near death. She's saved by an Aboriginal man who carries her to the door of a grand European house, Willowbrae, and leaves her at the doorstep. In this world of colonial decorum, Tom is suddenly free to be whoever she wants and a whole new life opens up to her. But as she's drawn deeper into the intriguing world of Willowbrae she discovers that things aren't, actually, quite as they seem - and that she may have exchanged one kind of prison for another. This is an intense, sharp shiver of a novel, a gripping tale of survival and a powerful story of landscape, liberty and identity which examines the darkness at the heart of early colonisation.