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037 _bPO Box A565, Sydney South NSW 1235, website: http://www.harpercollins.com.au
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_aChallinor, Deborah,
_d1959-
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aBehind the sun /
_cDeborah Challinor.
260 _aSydney South, N.S.W. :
_bHarperCollins Publishers,
_c2013.
263 _a201301
300 _a1 v.
490 _aConvict girls
_v1
520 _aIrreverent 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 ...
530 _aAlso available online.
650 0 _aFemale friendship
_vFiction.
_9177
650 0 _aWomen convicts
_zAustralia
_vFiction.
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