Christina Baker Kline

The Exiles

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'Christina's level of research into characters, place and time to tell a powerful story of suffering and survival in an historical fiction is masterful' Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz
'Gorgeous' Kristin Hannah, author of The Nightingale
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.
On board she befriends Hazel, sentenced to seven years’ transport for theft, whose own path will cross with an orphaned indigenous girl. The governor of Tasmania has ‘adopted’ Mathinna, but the family treat her more as a curiosity than a child.
Amid hardships and cruelties, new life will take root in stolen soil and friendships will define lives, but only some will find their place on the other side of the world.
'Master storyteller Christina Baker Kline is at her best in this epic tale of Australia’s complex history—a vivid and rewarding feat of both empathy and imagination. I loved this book' Paula McLain, bestselling author of The Paris Wife
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296 printed pages
Original publication
2020
Publication year
2020
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  • Refiloe Masitashared an impression3 years ago
    👍Worth reading
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    💞Loved Up
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Quotes

  • Refiloe Masitahas quoted3 years ago
    Didn’t these colonists know that time doesn’t move in a line from past to present but instead is continuous? That spirits and humans, animals and plants, are connected by the land, which binds ancestors to descendants in an eternal moment?
  • Refiloe Masitahas quoted3 years ago
    “You carry the people and places you cherish with you. Remember that and you will never be lonely, child.”
  • Refiloe Masitahas quoted3 years ago
    “Every person you’ve ever cared about, and every place you’ve ever loved, is one of these shells. You’re the thread that ties them together
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