The exiles : a novel
(Audiobook CD)
Contributors
Lee, Caroline, 1953- narrator.
Published
[New York] : Harper Audio, [2020].
ISBN
9780063035492, 0063035499
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Carol Stream Public Library - Adult Audiobooks | BCD/KLINE C | On Shelf |
Crete Public Library District - Adult Audiobook Fiction | CD F KLINE, C. | On Shelf |
Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Flr - Audiobooks | CD F KLINE | On Shelf |
Lansing Public Library - Adult Book On CD Fiction | CD KLI | On Shelf |
Oak Lawn Public Library - AV | CD FICTION KLINE | On Shelf |
Subjects
LC Subjects
Australia -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Australia -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Exile (Punishment) -- Fiction.
Female friendship -- Fiction.
Governesses -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Midwives -- Fiction.
Penal colonies -- Australia -- Fiction.
Sound recordings.
Tasmania -- Fiction.
Women -- Australia -- Fiction.
Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Fiction.
Australia -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Exile (Punishment) -- Fiction.
Female friendship -- Fiction.
Governesses -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Midwives -- Fiction.
Penal colonies -- Australia -- Fiction.
Sound recordings.
Tasmania -- Fiction.
Women -- Australia -- Fiction.
Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Fiction.
More Details
Published
[New York] : Harper Audio, [2020].
Format
Audiobook CD
Physical Desc
9 audio discs (approximately 10 hours, 15 minutes) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
ISBN
9780063035492, 0063035499
UPC
9780063035492
Notes
General Note
Compact discs.
Participants/Performers
Read by Caroline Lee.
Description
Seduced by her employer's son, Evangeline, a na̐ve 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. During the journey on a repurposed slave ship, the Medea, Evangeline strikes up a friendship with Hazel, a girl little older than her former pupils who was sentenced to seven years transport for stealing a silver spoon. Canny where Evangeline is guileless, Hazel -- a skilled midwife and herbalist -- is soon offering home remedies to both prisoners and sailors in return for a variety of favors. Though Australia has been home to Aboriginal people for more than 50,000 years, the British government in the 1840s considers its fledgling colony uninhabited and unsettled, and views the natives as an unpleasant nuisance. By the time the Medea arrives, many of them have been forcibly relocated, their land seized by white colonists. One of these relocated people is Mathinna, the orphaned daughter of the Chief of the Lowreenne tribe, who has been adopted by the new governor of Van Diemen's Land. In this gorgeous novel, Christina Baker Kline brilliantly recreates the beginnings of a new society in a beautiful and challenging land, telling the story of Australia from a fresh perspective, through the experiences of Evangeline, Hazel, and Mathinna. While life in Australia is punishing and often brutally unfair, it is also, for some, an opportunity: for redemption, for a new way of life, for unimagined freedom.
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AUDIOBOOK CD
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Kline, C. B., & Lee, C. (2020). The exiles: a novel (Unabridged.). Harper Audio.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Kline, Christina Baker, 1964- and Caroline Lee. 2020. The Exiles: A Novel. Harper Audio.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Kline, Christina Baker, 1964- and Caroline Lee. The Exiles: A Novel Harper Audio, 2020.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Kline, Christina Baker, and Caroline Lee. The Exiles: A Novel Unabridged., Harper Audio, 2020.
Note! Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy. Citation formats are based on standards as of August 2021.
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