Sent to a Tasmanian penal colony after con ceiving her employer's grandchild\, Evangeline\, a naï\;ve young gover ness in early nineteenth-century London\, is sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid\, overcrowded jail\, she learns she is sentenced to &ldquo\;the land beyond the seas\,&rdquo\; a penal colony in Australia. During the journey on a repurposed slave ship\, the Medea\, Eva ngeline strikes up a friendship with Hazel\, a skilled midwife and herbali st and Mathinna\, the orphaned daughter of the Chief of the Lowreenne trib e\, who has been adopted by the new governor of Van Diemen&rsquo\;s Land. While life in Australia is punishing and often brutally unfair\, it is als o\, for some\, an opportunity: for redemption\, for a new way of life\, fo r unimagined freedom. \;
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