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Item Details
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NIGHT FLOWER
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| By: |
Sarah Stovell |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£12.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1906994218 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781906994211 |
| Publisher: |
PROFILE BOOKS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
15 August, 2013 |
| Edition: |
Main |
| Pages: |
320 |
| Description: |
A Romany girl and a disgraced governess are transported as convicts to Tasmania in this hugely entertaining Victorian gothic. |
| Synopsis: |
Two girls are brought together under the worst of circumstances: a prison ship taking them from London to 'parts beyond the sea'. Miriam is a Romany girl drawn from freedom in the hills of the North-West to the city to eke a living playing her tin-whistle in a place where her people are despised. When her mother dies - from cholera, the 'gypsy disease' - she's caught breaking-and-entering and sentenced to transportation. Rose has been brought up to expect more, but when her husband dies and her father is sent down for illegal slave-trading, she's separated from her children and forced to take a governess's job. When she's caught stealing, the judge shows no mercy. Surviving - just - an appalling voyage, the two arrive just after Christmas into the blinding sun of the strange new island: Van Dieman's Land. Here they are sent to work in a nursery, where women of ill-repute give birth before being sent for correction. The nursery is run by a corrupt, debauched Reverend and his idealistic son, who soon takes a fancy to Miriam. But Rose, her best friend and close confidant, watches jealously and makes plans to reverse their fortunes.The Night Flower takes the reader on a thrilling Dickensian adventure through the dark side of our penal history to a Tasmanian frontier town where anything could happen and morality is made by monsters. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Tindal Street Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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