Woman In Chains
| By E.V. Timms | |
| Publisher | Harlequin Romance #331 |
| Release Month | 1955 (US) |
| Harlequin Romance Series # | |
| Preceded by | Convict Town |
| Followed by | Staff Nurse |
- Author: E.V. Timms
- Publisher: Harlequin Romance #331
- Year: 1955
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.
