01337cam a2200253 i 4500 1056199572 TxAuBib 20200905120000.0 180326s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780062356345 0062356348 KHPB566 TxAuBib rda Kline, Christina. The Exiles. William Morrow : New York, 2020. 23.5 cm, 371p. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Though Australia has been home to Aboriginal people for more than 50,000 years, the British government in the 1840's considers its fledgling colony uninhabited and untamed, and views the indigenous people as an unpleasant nuisance. The British government sends prisoners from Newgate Prison to Van Diemen's Land, its penal colony in Australia. This novel is based on true events in the life of two women who are prisoners, and Mathinna, the orphaned daughter of an Aboriginal chief who has been taken in on a whim by the new governor of Van Diemen's Land. It is a story of grace born from hardship, the unbreakable bonds of female friendship, and the unfettering of legacy. 20200914. Prisoners Fiction. Australia History Fiction.