Behind the Sun (Convict Girls #1) Free Download By Deborah Challinor
| Title | : | Behind the Sun (Convict Girls #1) |
| Author | : | Deborah Challinor |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Page | : | 470 pages |
| ISBN | : | 0732293065 |
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 a 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 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 from the Harper Collins website
about Author
Born in Huntly, she holds a PhD in New Zealand history from the University of Waikato Challinor has worked as a fulltime writer and historian since 2000.Primarily known for her historical novels, Deborah Challinor s first published books were non fiction history books, including the best selling Grey Ghosts New Zealand Vietnam Vets Talk About Their War Hodder Moa Beckett, 1998.Her first histor Born in Huntly, she holds a PhD in New Zealand history from the University of Waikato Challinor has worked as a fulltime writer and historian since 2000.Primarily known for her historical novels, Deborah Challinor s first published books were non fiction history books, including the best selling Grey Ghosts New Zealand Vietnam Vets Talk About Their War Hodder Moa Beckett, 1998.Her first historical novel, Tamar, was published in 2002 and has been reprinted six times Tamar is set in Auckland, Hawke s Bay and South Africa and covers the period from 1879 until the Boer War The series continues with White Feathers 2003 and Blue Smoke 2004.Union Belle 2005 tells the love story of a young woman caught up in the 1951 waterfront strike, and Kitty 2006 is set in the Bay of Islands in nineteenth century New Zealand Both novels have been at the top of the New Zealand fiction bestseller list.Attention to historical detail is an important part of writing for Challinor I base my novels on actual historical events, and it s very important to me to research those events in depth and to present them accurately, she says.Reviewing Union Belle in North and South magazine in April 2005, Warwick Roger commented that You can smell the beer and cigarette smoke in the public bar of the Huntly Hotel, hear the band at the Saturday night dances at the miner s hall it s a book I kept sneaking back to whenever I had a spare quarter hour, eager to advance the story Fire HarperCollins, 2007 , Challinor s seventh novel, is set in Auckland during the hype leading up to the royal visit of 1953, but is based on the Ballantyne s department store fire of 1947 in Christchurch A powerful and dramatic story of passion, ambition and greed, it became a number one bestseller.Amber, the sequel to Kitty, was published later in 2007 and also became a bestseller Amber opens in New Zealand in 1945, on the eve of the Northern War in the Bay of Islands, in which Kitty is caught up Sent to Auckland away from the fighting, Kitty encounters an orphaned part Maori girl she names Amber Together they return to the Bay of Islands, where both Kitty must risk her own life to save Amber s Isle of Tears HarperCollins NZ Ltd, 2009 is a story about 14 year old Scottish immigrant Isla McKinnon and her younger brothers and sister When they are orphaned they are adopted by Taranaki Maori and become caught up in the wars in Taranaki, the Waikato and the Bay of Plenty.A revised edition of Challinor s Grey Ghosts HarperCollins NZ was published in 2009 This edition included a new chapter on how the New Zealand Vietnam veteran community has fared since the book was first published in 1998 
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Irreverent and streetwise prostitute, Friday Woolfe, is in London s notorious Newgate gaol, awaiting transportation There, she meets three other girls
470 pagesDeborah Challinor
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