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The convict's daughter, the scandal that shocked a colony, Kiera Lindsey

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The convict's daughter, the scandal that shocked a colony, Kiera Lindsey

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eng

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fiction

Main title

The convict's daughter

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Kiera Lindsey

Sub title

the scandal that shocked a colony

Summary

One wet autumn evening in 1848, fifteen-year-old Mary Ann Gill stole out of a bedroom window in her father's Sydney hotel and took a coach to a local racecourse. There she was to elope with James Butler Kinchela, wayward son of the former Attorney-General. Her enraged father pursued them on horseback and fired two pistols at his daughter's suitor, narrowly avoiding killing him. What followed was Australia's most scandalous abduction trial of the era, as well as an extraordinary story of adventure and misadventure, both in Australia and abroad. Through humiliation, heartache, bankruptcy and betrayal, Mary Ann hung on to James' promise to marry her. This is a compelling biography of a currency lass born when convicts were still working the streets of Sydney

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