On Different Shores

By: Rebecca Bryn

A young poacher is convicted of killing a gamekeeper and is transported to Van Diemen's Land for life, leaving behind his common-law wife. pregnant and penniless, and determined her child will know its father, she embarks on a perilous endeavour to join him. Can their love endure?

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A young poacher is found guilty of killing Lord Northampton's gamekeeper and is transported to Van Diemen's Land for life, leaving behind the common-law wife he loves. Pregnant and penniless, she faces the appalling lack of rights for women in Victorian England and is forced to make hard choices.

While he suffers the deprivations of a brutal life in chains, she is determined her child will know its father; she embarks on a dangerous endeavour to follow her lover across the globe. Will the cost of her actions prove too high, for her and for all those she loves? (Inspired by family history and real events.)

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