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It is London in 1789 and 16-year-old Phoebe Scott steals a dress in which to bury her dead mother. Her punishment is the harsh cruelty of transportation on a convict ship to the starving colony at Sydney Cove.

Sixteen, and pregnant to the ships surgeon, Phoebe is abandoned to the hardships of the penal settlement and the loss of the one man she thought had cared for her.

Phoebe experiences betrayal, humiliation and loss after loss but she also finds strength to conquer the challenges she faces, not least because of the friendship she forges with Arbaroo, a native Aboriginal girl, who is filled with the same grief and the same feelings of loss.

Unexpected kindnesses and the skills she learns from Arbaroo combine to allow Phoebe to find her feet and make a life for herself in her new home.

With a complex plot that does not flinch from revealing the hatred and violence of prejudice in colony life, Carolyn Kelly has woven a tale of passion, of sorrow of the best and worst that lies at the heart of humanity. A wholly absorbing and emotionally compelling book with the power to affect the reader long after he or she has turned the last page.

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Sixteen, and pregnant to the ships surgeon, Phoebe is abandoned to the hardships of the penal settlement and the loss of the one man she thought had cared for her.

Unexpected kindnesses and the skills she learns from Arbaroo combine to allow Phoebe to find her feet and make a life for herself in her new home.

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Carolyn Kelly