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01824aam a2200313 i 4500 001 966CF2AE1C3311ECA7A5583349ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210923010017 008 200730s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 006235633X 020 $a 9780062356338 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Kline, Christina Baker. 245 14 $a The exiles : $b a novel / $c Christina Baker Kline. 264 1 $a New York : $b Custom House, $c 2020. 300 $a 371 pages : $b b&w ill., color map ; $c 21 cm. 520 $a Seduced by her employer's son, Evangeline, a naïve 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. 525 $a Includes: About the Author, Behind the Book, "Tell it Slant: an interview with Christina Baker Kline," Reading group guide. 541 $d 20210727. 650 $a Women prisoners $v Fiction. 650 $a Female friendship $v Fiction. 650 $a Women $z Australia $v Fiction. 651 7 $a Australia $x History $y 19th century $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. 655 7 $a Novels. 941 $a 2 952 $l S2PA501 $d 20220228131131.0 952 $l YGPC162 $d 20210923011430.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=966CF2AE1C3311ECA7A5583349ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search