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==Book Description==
 
==Book Description==
  
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Governor Stirling, with his colonists near to starvation, has a grimly difficult task in the first years of settlement in Western Australia. THe faint-hearted have returned to England: those who remain continue the struggle for survival in this stubborn unknown land - among them the stubborn high-born adventurer Simon Lee Challinor and his wife Penelope, lovely daughter of the innkeeper Martha Gubby. The inimitable Martha has remained too, and a colourful assortment of individual characters both humorous and grave. For there is abundant humour in this tale of courage and comradeship, of jealousy and passionate love: and the tragedy of rape and murder and privation is offset by the gaiety and charm with which the author handles domestic comedy.
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Searching for land many miles from Swan River, Simon and Penelope encounter Ginny Lockey, a convict woman escaped from Hobart. And the horrifying story of the brutalities and abuses to which this warped creature has been submitted is brilliantly woven into the main narrative.
  
 
==Cover Variation (By Release Date)==
 
==Cover Variation (By Release Date)==

Latest revision as of 16:14, 4 January 2013

1955 US Edition
By E.V. Timms
Publisher Harlequin Romance #331
Release Month 1955 (US)
Harlequin Romance Series #
Preceded by Convict Town
Followed by Staff Nurse

Book Description

Governor Stirling, with his colonists near to starvation, has a grimly difficult task in the first years of settlement in Western Australia. THe faint-hearted have returned to England: those who remain continue the struggle for survival in this stubborn unknown land - among them the stubborn high-born adventurer Simon Lee Challinor and his wife Penelope, lovely daughter of the innkeeper Martha Gubby. The inimitable Martha has remained too, and a colourful assortment of individual characters both humorous and grave. For there is abundant humour in this tale of courage and comradeship, of jealousy and passionate love: and the tragedy of rape and murder and privation is offset by the gaiety and charm with which the author handles domestic comedy.

Searching for land many miles from Swan River, Simon and Penelope encounter Ginny Lockey, a convict woman escaped from Hobart. And the horrifying story of the brutalities and abuses to which this warped creature has been submitted is brilliantly woven into the main narrative.

Cover Variation (By Release Date)

1955 <br\>US Edition