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Aug 25, 2020 · The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Orphan Train returns with an ambitious, emotionally resonant novel about three women whose lives are bound together in nineteenth-century Australia and the hardships they weather together as they fight for redemption and freedom in a new society.
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Aug 25, 2020 · The Exiles is a novel about three women who are exiled to Australia in the 1840s for different reasons. It explores their struggles, friendships, and hopes in a new land and society.
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Aug 25, 2020 · Three women's lives intersect in nineteenth-century Australia: an English convict, a fellow prisoner, and an Aboriginal girl. The novel explores their hardships, oppression, and hope in a new land.
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Aug 25, 2020 · A London governess and a Scottish midwife’s neglected daughter are sent to a penal colony in Australia, where an Aboriginal girl is in another sort of captivity.
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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 established by Great...
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“Monumental. This episode in history gets a top-notch treatment by Kline, one of our foremost historical novelists. This fascinating 19th-century take on Orange Is the New Black is subtle, intelligent, and thrillingly melodramatic.” — Kirkus(starred), 8/19/20 “A tour de force of original thought, imagination and promise … Kline takes full advantage...
The Exiles is a novel about four women's lives in nineteenth-century Australia: three English convicts and an Aboriginal girl. It explores the hardship, oppression, opportunity and hope of the colonial society and its legacy.
The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Orphan Train returns with an ambitious, emotionally resonant novel about three women whose lives are bound together in nineteenth-century Australia and the hardships they weather together as they fight for redemption and freedom in a new society.
- Christina Baker Kline
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May 20, 2021 · London, 1840. Evangeline has languished in Newgate prison for months, falsely accused of stealing her master’s ring. Now beginning the long journey to Australia on a prison ship, she hopes for a new life for both her and her unborn child.
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