TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kline,Christina Baker
TI  - The exiles
SN  - 0749026499
U1  - 823.914 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - London
PB  - Allison & Busby
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Exiles
KW  - Australia
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Penal transportation
KW  - Women, Aboriginal Australian
KW  - Tasmania
KW  - Aboriginal Australians
KW  - Women convicts
KW  - Women prisoners
KW  - fast
KW  - Pregnant women
KW  - Friendship
KW  - Convict ships
KW  - Friendship - Fiction
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 1803-1900
KW  - Australian stories
KW  - Adult fiction
KW  - Print
KW  - lcgft
N2  - 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
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