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The exiles a novel

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...

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Main Author: Kline, Christina Baker, 1964- (Author)
Other Authors: Lee, Caroline, 1953- (Narrator)
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language: English
Published: [New York] : HarperCollins, [2020]
Edition: Unabridged.
Subjects:
Exile (Punishment) > Fiction.
Women > Australia > Fiction.
Female friendship > Fiction.
Penal colonies > Australia > Fiction.
Governesses > Fiction.
Life change events > Fiction.
Midwives > Fiction.
Australia > History > 19th century > Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Audiobooks.
Summary: 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.
Item Description: Compact discs.
Physical Description: 8 audio discs (10 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN: 9781799950738
1799950735
9781799950721
1799950727
Author Notes: Christina Baker Kline was born in 1964 in Cambridge, England. She received a BA in English from Yale University, a MA in literature from Cambridge University, and a MFA from the University of Virginia. Her essays and articles have appeared in several periodicals including The San Francisco Chronicle, the Literarian, Coastal Living, More, and Psychology Today. Kline served as Writer-in-Residence at Fordham University from 2007 to 2011, where she taught graduate and undergraduate creative writing and literature. She also teaches in the Fordham-in-London program at the University of London, Heythrop College. She has taught literature and creative writing at Yale Univeristy, NYU, the University of Virginia, and Drew University, and has served as Writer-in-Residence at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

She is the author of several novels including Sweet Water, Desire Lines, The Way Life Should Be, Bird in Hand, Orphan Train, and A Piece of the World. She is also the co-editor, with Anne Burt, of About Face: Women Write about What They See When They Look in the Mirror and the co-author, with Christina L. Baker, of The Conversation Begins: Mothers and Daughters Talk about Living Feminism. She has edited three other anthologies: Child of Mine, Room to Grow, and Always Too Soon.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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