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 Britain.
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. I loved this book.” - Paula McLain, New York Times Bestselling author of The Paris Wife “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. Christina explores the development of Australia from a fresh perspective, telling the story of this fascinating, blood-soaked land and its legacy with the grace, beauty, empathy, and insight-and the rich, full-bodied characters-that are the hallmarks of her work. While most English convicts transported to Australia were men, 25,000 were women. While Orphan Train and A Piece of the World were grounded in American history, The Exiles makes a bold geographic and cultural leap, and confirms Christina’s place among the finest talents writing today. A powerful, emotionally resonant novel that captures the hardship, oppression, opportunity and hope of four women’s lives-three English convicts and an orphaned Aboriginal girl-in nineteenth-century Australia.Ĭhristina Baker Kline has established herself as a novelist who plumbs noteworthy but little-known facets of the past, and The Exiles marks her third foray into the genre.
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