The exiles : a novel
Seduced by her employer's son, Evangeline, a naïve 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.
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Women > Australia > Fiction. Female friendship > Fiction. Australia > History > 19th century > Fiction. |
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Audiobooks. Historical fiction. Sound recordings. |
- ISBN: 9780063035492
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Physical Description
sound disc
9 audio discs (approximately 10 1/4 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in. - Edition Unabridged.
- Publisher [New York] : Harper Audio, 2020.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Title from container. Compact discs. GMD: sound recording. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Caroline Lee. |