Title from Playaway label

Originally published by Harper Audio ℗2020

Release date supplied by publisher

Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player

One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening

Performed by Caroline Lee

Seduced by her employer's son, Evangeline, a naïve 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

Playaway; required earphones available at Circulation Desk