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The Exiles

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The Exiles

Seduced by her employer’s son, Evangeline, a naïve young governess in early 19th-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. Months later, she is sentenced to Van Diemen’s Land, a penal colony in Australia. During 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. Though Australia has been home to Aboriginal people for more than 50,000 years, the British government considers its fledgling colony uninhabited and unsettled. By the time the Medea arrives, many of them have been forcibly relocated, including Mathinna, who has been adopted by the new governor of Van Diemen’s Land.

The Exiles
by Christina Baker Kline

  • Publication Date: July 6, 2021
  • Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction
  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Custom House
  • ISBN-10: 006235633X
  • ISBN-13: 9780062356338