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The Exiles
By : Christina Baker Kline
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Book Synopsis :
The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Orphan Train returns with an ambitious, emotionally resonant novel that captures the hardship, oppression, opportunity and hope of a trio of women?s lives in nineteenth-century Australia.Seduced by her employer?s son, Evangeline, a na?ve young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is sentenced to ?the land beyond the seas,? Van Diemen?s Land, a penal colony in Australia. Though uncertain of what awaits, Evangeline knows one thing: the child she carries will be born on the months-long voyage to this distant land.During the journey on a repurposed slave ship, the Medea, Evangeline strikes up a friendship with Hazel, a girl little older than her former pupils who was sentenced to seven years transport for stealing a silver spoon. Canny where Evangeline is guileless, Hazel -- a skilled
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Author : Christina Baker Kline
Pages : pages
Publisher : HarperAudio
Language : eng
ISBN-10 : B084616FCY
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