TY  - BOOK
AU  - Challinor,Deborah
TI  - Behind the sun
T2  - Convict girls
SN  - 9780732293062 (pbk)
U1  - NZ823.3 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Sydney South, N.S.W.
PB  - HarperCollins Publishers
KW  - Female friendship
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Women convicts
KW  - Australia
N1  - Also available online
N2  - Irreverent and streetwise prostitute, Friday Woolfe, is in London's notorious Newgate gaol, awaiting transportation. There, she meets three other girls: intelligent and opportunistic thief, Sarah Morgan, naive young Rachel Winter, and reliable and capable seamstress, Harriet Clarke. On the voyage to New South Wales their friendship becomes an unbreakable bond - but there are others on board who will change their lives forever. Friday makes an implacable enemy of Bella Jackson, a vicious woman whose power seems undiminished by her arrest and transportation, while Harriet is taken under the wing of an idealistic doctor, James Downey. Rachel catches the eye of a sinister passenger with more than honour on his mind, whose brutal assault leaves her life hanging in the balance. When they finally arrive on the other side of the world, they are confined to the grim and overcrowded Parramatta Female Factory. But worse is to come as the threat of separation looms. In the land behind the sun, the only thing they have is each other

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