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Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 Of Breath and Blood
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'PLACE: Parramatta Female Factory.
YEAR: 1827.
OCCASION: a riot.

'Newly appointed Matron Ann Gordon interviews the ringleaders, notably one Molly Malone, according to Reverend Marsden a violent criminal. She discovers that Molly, like herself, has left an illegitimate daughter behind; but there’s no time for that now. She has order to restore, and restore in time for the Factory’s Market Day, when single men come looking for a wife. Meanwhile, Molly does time in solitary confinement. No sooner is she released than Ginger Em, the young London housebreaker she has befriended, begs for help escaping…

'Nine years later, the Factory has become known as Gordonsville. Yet Ann Gordon has been dismissed. Time to leave Parramatta. Standing outside the Factory walls, she remembers the women she helped and the woman she couldn’t: Molly Malone. And whatever happened to Ginger Em?' (Publication summary)

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    • North Melbourne, Flemington - North Melbourne area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,: Arcadia , 2020 .
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      • Published October 2020
      ISBN: 9781922454102
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  • Parramatta, Parramatta area, Sydney, New South Wales,
  • 1827
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