The exiles / Christina Baker Kline.
Publication details: London : Allison & Busby, 2020.Edition: First editionDescription: 382 pages ; 22 cmISBN:- 0749026499
- 9780749026493
- 9780749026295
- 0749026294
- 1800-1899
- Historical fiction
- Exiles -- Australia -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Penal transportation -- Australia -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Penal transportation -- Australia -- Tasmania -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Exiles -- Australia -- Tasmania -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Women prisoners
- Pregnant women
- Penal transportation
- Friendship
- Exiles
- Convict ships
- Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Fiction
- Exiles -- Tasmania -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Aboriginal Australians -- Fiction
- Women prisoners -- Fiction
- Penal transportation -- Tasmania -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Women convicts -- Fiction
- Pregnant women -- Fiction
- Convict ships -- Fiction
- Friendship -- Fiction
- Australia
- Tasmania
- Tasmania -- Fiction
- Tasmania -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Tasmania -- Social conditions -- 1803-1900 -- Fiction
- Australia -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- 823.914 23
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction - Historical | KLI | Available | 062843 |
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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.