Flight of the Wren
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ISBN: 9781912514267
Author | McAlinden, Orla |
Pub Date | 05/09/2018 |
Binding | Trade PB |
Country | IRL |
Dewey | 823.92 |
Quick overview In this beautifully-written and meticulously researched historical novel, inspired by true events, the stories of real Irish women convicts weave through a fictionalised account of life and love on board Her Majesty’s prison ship Australasia, which berthed at the penal colony in van Diemen’s Land, in June 1849, with 200 convicts and twenty-eight children. Themes of love, cruelty, desperation, and survival against overwhelming odds, are explored within their political and historical setting.Historical fiction set in Kildare.