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. After months in jail, she learns she is sentenced to "the land beyond the seas," 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
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Type
Bog
Sprog
engelsk
Emnetal
83
ISBN
9780062356345
Udgave
1. edition
Omfang
371 sider
Forlag
William Morrow
Målgruppe
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