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Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 The Wreck
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'1820 Sarah McCaffrey, fleeing arrest for her part in a failed rebellion, thinks she has escaped when she finds herself aboard the Serpent, bound from London to the colony of New South Wales. But when the mercurial captain's actions drive the ship into a cliff, Sarah is the only survivor. Adopting a false identity, she becomes the right-hand woman of Molly Thistle, who has grown her late husband's business interests into a sprawling real estate and trade empire. As time passes, Sarah begins to believe she might have found a home - until her past follows her across the seas.'(Publication summary) 

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Marylebone, London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Bonnier Zaffre ,
      2020 .
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      Extent: 400p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 3rd September 2020
      ISBN: 9781838771393

Other Formats

  • Sound recording.
  • Dyslexic edition.
  • Large print.

Works about this Work

Ripping Yarn of Derring-Do Adam Courtenay , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 12 December 2020; (p. 15)

— Review of The Wreck Meg Keneally , 2020 single work novel
Transformations : Meg Keneally’s Second Solo Novel Pip Smith , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 427 2020;

— Review of The Wreck Meg Keneally , 2020 single work novel

'In 1819, sixty thousand people gathered in St Peter’s Field, Manchester, to protest for parliamentary reform. Industrialisation had transformed a city of skilled tradespeople into factory workers, tariffs on imported grain kept food prices high, and few were eligible to vote. Although the protest was peaceful, local magistrates sent in the Yeomen and the Hussars who killed approximately eleven people and injured more than four hundred.' (Introduction)

Transformations : Meg Keneally’s Second Solo Novel Pip Smith , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 427 2020;

— Review of The Wreck Meg Keneally , 2020 single work novel

'In 1819, sixty thousand people gathered in St Peter’s Field, Manchester, to protest for parliamentary reform. Industrialisation had transformed a city of skilled tradespeople into factory workers, tariffs on imported grain kept food prices high, and few were eligible to vote. Although the protest was peaceful, local magistrates sent in the Yeomen and the Hussars who killed approximately eleven people and injured more than four hundred.' (Introduction)

Ripping Yarn of Derring-Do Adam Courtenay , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 12 December 2020; (p. 15)

— Review of The Wreck Meg Keneally , 2020 single work novel
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