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Title The exiles [LARGE PRINT] : a novel / Christina Baker Kline.
Author Kline, Christina Baker, 1964- author.
Publication Info. New York, NY : Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]
©2020
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Edition First Harper Large Print edition.
Description 437 pages (large print) : map ; 23 cm
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Summary Sent to a Tasmanian penal colony after conceiving her employer's grandchild, a young governess befriends a talented midwife and an orphaned Aboriginal chief's daughter while confronting the harsh realities of British colonialism and oppression in 19th-century Australia.
Evangeline, a naïve young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is seduced by her employer's son and becomes pregnant. Sent to Newgate Prison, she is sentenced to "the land beyond the seas," Van Diemen's Land, a penal colony in Australia. Evangeline knows the child she carries will be born on the months-long voyage to this distant land. During the journey on 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. A skilled midwife and herbalist, Hazel offers home remedies to both prisoners and sailors in return for a variety of favors. Though Australia has been home to Aboriginal people for more than 50,000 years, the British government in the 1840s considers its fledgling colony uninhabited and unsettled, and views the natives as an unpleasant nuisance. Mathinna, the orphaned daughter of the Chief of the Lowreenne tribe, has been adopted by the new governor of Van Diemen's Land. Soon all three face an opportunity: for a new way of life. -- adapted from back cover
Subject Australia -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Australia -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Women -- Australia -- Fiction.
Female friendship -- Fiction.
Governesses -- Fiction.
Life change events -- Fiction.
Midwives -- Fiction.
Exile (Punishment) -- Fiction.
Penal colonies -- Australia -- Fiction.
Large type books.
Female friendship. (OCoLC)fst00922609
Governesses. (OCoLC)fst00945132
Large type books. (OCoLC)fst00992678
Life change events. (OCoLC)fst00998231
Midwives. (OCoLC)fst01020625
Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
Australia. (OCoLC)fst01204543
1800-1899
Genre Large type books.
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Historical fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726640
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.
ISBN 9780063028944 (large print ; paperback) : $29.99
0063028948 (large print ; paperback)
9781648380921 (large print ; hardcover)
1648380921 (large print ; hardcover)