Despite warnings from the other women, Blackwell’s motives seem decent, and beneath the roof of a military officer, Nell sees a chance to become more than just a convict woman sent to the factory to be forgotten.īut tensions are high in New South Wales, with the young colony teetering on the edge of a convict rebellion. Nell is given shelter by Lieutenant Blackwell, a brooding soldier to whom she is inexplicably drawn. She is put to work at the female factory of Parramatta, where the women’s only hope of food and lodgings is to offer their bodies to the settlement’s men. In 1806, a fateful decision sends Eleanor Marling from the salons of London to a prison ship bound for New South Wales. Journey through the colonies of nineteenth-century Australia with three standalone novels of love, loss, survival and redemption.
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