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04363cam a2200649 i 4500 001 18EFB850882D11ECA49113F3153FDB2A 003 SILO 005 20220207094621 008 200810t20202020nyub 000 f eng d 020 $a 0062356348 020 $a 9780062356345 035 $a (OCoLC)1183029346 040 $a MDK $b eng $e rda $c MDK $d MDK $d IK2 $d CD5 $d LE@ $d TXN $d OI6 $d EB$ $d TCH $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d INR $d SINLB $d OCLCF $d VP@ $d GZN $d CNCAR $d OCLCO $d Z#6 $d OCLCO $d WVU $d KK2 $d OCLCO $d CUV $d YDX $d BDX $d ALECL $d OCLCO $d SILO 043 $a u-at--- 050 14 $a PS3561.L478 $b E85 2020 082 04 $a 813/.54 $2 23 100 1 $a Kline, Christina Baker, $d 1964- $e author. 245 14 $a The exiles : $b a novel / $c Christina Baker Kline. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, $c [2020] 300 $a 371 pages : $b color map ; $c 24 cm 520 $a Seduced by her employer's son, Evangeline, a naiÌve young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is sentenced to "the land beyond the seas," Van Diemen's Land, a penal colony in Australia. Though uncertain of what awaits, Evangeline knows one thing: the child she carries will be born on the months-long voyage to this distant land. During the journey on a repurposed slave ship, the Medea, Evangeline strikes up a friendship with Hazel, a girl little older than her former pupils who was sentenced to seven years transport for stealing a silver spoon. Canny where Evangeline is guileless, Hazel -- a skilled midwife and herbalist -- is soon offering home remedies to both prisoners and sailors in return for a variety of favors. Though Australia has been home to Aboriginal people for more than 50,000 years, the British government in the 1840s considers its fledgling colony uninhabited and unsettled, and views the natives as an unpleasant nuisance. By the time the Medea arrives, many of them have been forcibly relocated, their land seized by white colonists. One of these relocated people is Mathinna, the orphaned daughter of the Chief of the Lowreenne tribe, who has been adopted by the new governor of Van Diemen's Land. In this gorgeous novel, Christina Baker Kline brilliantly recreates the beginnings of a new society in a beautiful and challenging land, telling the story of Australia from a fresh perspective, through the experiences of Evangeline, Hazel, and Mathinna. While life in Australia is punishing and often brutally unfair, it is also, for some, an opportunity: for redemption, for a new way of life, for unimagined freedom. 651 0 $a Australia $x History $y 19th century $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Exile (Punishment) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Women $z Australia $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Female friendship $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Penal colonies $z Australia $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Governesses $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Life change events $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Midwives $v Fiction. 650 1 $a Midwives $x Fiction. 650 7 $a FICTION $x Literary. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a FICTION $x General. $x General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a FICTION $x Cultural Heritage. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Exile (Punishment) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00918133 650 7 $a Female friendship. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00922609 650 7 $a Governesses. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00945132 650 7 $a Life change events. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00998231 650 7 $a Midwives. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01020625 650 7 $a Penal colonies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01056803 650 7 $a Women. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01176568 651 7 $a Australia. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204543 650 7 $a Women $v Fiction. $2 sears 650 7 $a Friendship $v Fiction. $2 sears 650 7 $a Penal colonies $v Fiction. $2 sears 651 7 $a Australia $x History $v Fiction. $2 sears 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01726640 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 gsafd 941 $a 2 $n 1 952 $l NVPB663 $d 20240422104036.0 $n 8 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20220207105641.0 $n 5 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=18EFB850882D11ECA49113F3153FDB2A 994 $a C0 $b IOZInitiate Another SILO Locator Search