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25. Aug. 2020 · The Exiles is a novel about three women who are transported to Australia as convicts in the 1840s. It explores their struggles, friendships, and hopes in a new and harsh land, as well as the clash between the British colonists and the Aboriginal people.
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25. Aug. 2020 · In this gorgeous novel, Christina Baker Kline brilliantly recreates the beginnings of a new society in a beautiful and challenging land, telling the story of Australia from a fresh perspective, through the experiences of Evangeline, Hazel, and Mathinna.
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25. Aug. 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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While life in Australia is punishing and often brutally unfair, it is also, for some, an opportunity: for redemption, for a new way of life, for unimagined freedom. Told in exquisite detail and incisive prose, The Exiles is a story of grace born from hardship, the unbreakable bonds of female friendships, and the unfettering of legacy.
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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.
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The Exiles is a novel about three women's lives in nineteenth-century Australia: an English convict, a fellow prisoner, and an Aboriginal girl. It explores their hardships, friendships, and hopes in a new land shaped by colonialism and oppression.
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