Helpful Score: 1
âThis is why we can't leave the making of laws to men. They result in travesties of injustice that unfairly burden the poor. And women. Those high and mighty aristocrats, in their black robes and powdered wigsâthey have no idea.â
Powerful drama about women convicts transported on a slave ship from England to Australia in the 1840s and a young aborigine girl Mathinna, daughter of the Chief of the Lowreenne tribe, stolen from the only home she knew in Tasmania and relocated by the new governor of Van Diemen's Land.
Have to admit, I couldn't book the book down. The main characters of Evangeline, Hazel, Olive and Mathinnia stole my heart.
My one criticism is I felt they never finished Mathinnia's story and kind of left her hanging.
Powerful drama about women convicts transported on a slave ship from England to Australia in the 1840s and a young aborigine girl Mathinna, daughter of the Chief of the Lowreenne tribe, stolen from the only home she knew in Tasmania and relocated by the new governor of Van Diemen's Land.
Have to admit, I couldn't book the book down. The main characters of Evangeline, Hazel, Olive and Mathinnia stole my heart.
My one criticism is I felt they never finished Mathinnia's story and kind of left her hanging.
