Beyond the blue mountains
By Jean Plaidy
Synopsis
Historical Fiction
Jean Plaidy's robust historical novels, which range from the intrigues of fifteenth-century Rome through turbulent Tudor and Stuart England to the terrors of the French Revolution, have enthralled readers for over twenty years
Beyond the Blue Mountains
A vivid and convincing story of England and Australia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
The adventures of the bold and reckless Carolan in the East End, in Newgate Jail and aboard the prison ship transporting her to Australia forcefully recreate the perversion, vice and cruelty of that age.
Once in Sydney, a convict maid-servant, Carolan seeks freedom and position. The way she chooses to ensure her future is such as will haunt her for the rest of her life
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