'In 1805, Anglican minister and magistrate, Robert Knopwood, was granted 30 acres in Hobart’s Sullivan’s Cove. The land was subdivided into residential plots and with the building of Mulgrave Battery in 1818, the locality became known as Battery Point. From its beginnings as a home to a mix of wealth and poverty, wharf labourers, whalers, boat-builders, merchants and factory owners – more recently a pleasant, leafy suburb, Battery Point has been a vibrant and mostly close-knit community for over 200 years. Home And Hearth: Stories Of A Battery Point Cottage is a collection of fictional stories about the people and the place over those two centuries.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
