![]() ![]() Though Australia has been home to Aboriginal people for more than 50,000 years, the British government in the 1840s views the natives as an unpleasant nuisance. Hazel-a skilled midwife and herbalist-is soon offering home remedies to both prisoners and sailors in return for a variety of favors. 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.ĭuring the journey on a repurposed slave ship, the Medea, Evangeline strikes up a friendship with Hazel, who was sentenced to seven years transport for stealing a silver spoon. ![]() 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. The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Orphan Train returns with an instant New York Times bestseller, The Exiles, an emotionally resonant novel about three women whose lives are bound together in nineteenth-century Australia and the hardships they weather together as they fight for redemption and freedom in a new society. ![]() Moderator: Dawn Heffron, leader of The Music Hall’s Book Club. ![]()
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