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050	1	4	_aPS3561.L478 _bE85 2020
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100	1		_aKline, Christina Baker, _d1964- _eauthor. _9104426
245	1	4	_aThe exiles
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bWilliam Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, _c2020.
264		4	_c�2020
300			_a371 pages : _bmaps ; _c24 cm
520			_aSeduced by her employer's son, Evangeline, a naive young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. 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 in Australia. Though uncertain of what awaits, Evangeline knows one thing: the child she carries will be born on the months-long voyage to this distant land. During the journey on a repurposed slave ship, 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. Canny where Evangeline is guileless, Hazel -- a skilled midwife and herbalist -- is soon offering 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. By the time the Medea arrives, many of them have been forcibly relocated, their land seized by white colonists. One of these relocated people is Mathinna, the orphaned daughter of the Chief of the Lowreenne tribe, who has been adopted by the new governor of Van Diemen's Land. In this gorgeous novel, Christina Baker Kline brilliantly recreates the beginnings of a new society in a beautiful and challenging land, telling the story of Australia from a fresh perspective, through the experiences of Evangeline, Hazel, and Mathinna. While life in Australia is punishing and often brutally unfair, it is also, for some, an opportunity: for redemption, for a new way of life, for unimagined freedom.
650		0	_aExile (Punishment) _vFiction. _9102993
650		0	_aWomen _zAustralia _vFiction. _9104427
650		0	_aFemale friendship _vFiction. _9104428
650		0	_aPenal colonies _zAustralia _vFiction. _9104429
650		0	_aGovernesses _vFiction. _9102997
650		0	_aLife change events _vFiction. _9104430
650		0	_aMidwives _vFiction. _9104431
651		0	_aAustralia _xHistory _y19th century _vFiction. _9104432
655		7	_aHistorical fiction. _2lcgft _9104433
655		7	_aHistorical fiction. _2gsafd _9104433
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