On Different Shores

By: Rebecca Bryn

Jem, a young poacher is convicted of killing a gamekeeper and is transported to Van Diemen's Land leaving behind Ella, his common-law wife. Pregnant and penniless, she determines to sacrifice all to follow him. A woman in love is unstoppable, and Ella is a woman in love.

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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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