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092			_aKLINE, _bCHRISTIN
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100	1		_aKline, Christina Baker, _d1964- _eauthor. _934893
245	1	4	_aThe exiles : _ba novel / _cChristina Baker Kline.
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
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_acartographic image _bcri _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_aSeduced 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 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.
651		0	_aAustralia _xHistory _y19th century _vFiction. _9165816
650		0	_aExile (Punishment) _vFiction. _9276851
650		0	_aWomen _zAustralia _vFiction.
650		0	_aFemale friendship _vFiction. _919755
650		0	_aPenal colonies _zAustralia _vFiction. _9163624
650		0	_aGovernesses _vFiction. _955598
650		0	_aLife change events _vFiction. _92853
650		0	_aMidwives _vFiction. _966156
655		7	_aHistorical fiction. _2lcgft _9683
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