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Overview: Who are you when all you hold dear is taken?
London midwife, Maggie Bloodworth, is no shy, domestic creature, but from the moment poverty leads her to steal a handful of clothes she’s in a fight for survival and her very soul.
Banished in 1790 to a place where right and wrong have no meaning, she must live by her wits amid deprivation and cruelty, while striving to get back to her abandoned daughter. All the while she’s haunted by her mother’s dying vision that she is marked, has a dark seed in her.
On an epic journey from England to Sydney Cove, far-flung Norfolk Island, and the wilds of Van Diemen’s Land, she must reckon at every step with how to be a good person in a bad world, even as she struggles with the kind of choices no woman should have to face— from adultery to bigamy, turning her back on one child for the baby who comes next, or forcing others off their land.
But the greatest challenge is yet to come, in a letter she’s not meant to see, exposing the lie at the heart of all she wrests from hardship, and the betrayal of the man she’s learned to love.
Profoundly emotional and beautifully written, the novel asks the question: can we truly judge the choices of others?
Based on a real person and events, and grounded in research, this is vivid storytelling at its best, an intimate portrayal of a woman determined to stand up to the forces of dark times, bravely laying down the roots of community from which a new nation will grow.
It shines a light on all women who fight to stay true to themselves, finding what power they can, and changing the world through courage and care.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller Historical
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