The exiles / Christina Baker Kline.
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TextPublisher: London : Allison & Busby, 2020Edition: First editionDescription: 382 pages ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0749026499; 9780749026493; 9780749026295; 0749026294Subject(s): 1800-1899 | Historical fiction | Exiles -- Australia -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction | Penal transportation -- Australia -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction | Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Fiction | Exiles -- Tasmania -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction | Aboriginal Australians -- Fiction | Penal transportation -- Tasmania -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction | Women convicts -- Fiction | Women prisoners | Pregnant women | Penal transportation | Friendship | Exiles | Convict ships | Penal transportation -- Australia -- Tasmania -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction | Exiles -- Australia -- Tasmania -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction | Friendship - Fiction | Women prisoners -- Fiction | Pregnant women -- Fiction | Convict ships -- Fiction | Friendship -- Fiction | Tasmania -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction | Tasmania -- Social conditions -- 1803-1900 -- Fiction | Australia | Tasmania | Tasmania -- Fiction | Australia -- History -- 19th century -- FictionGenre/Form: Australian stories -- Adult fiction -- Print | Historical fiction | Fiction. | Historical fiction. | History. | Historical fiction.DDC classification: 823.914 Summary: 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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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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