'This long essay is an engagingly personal, playful and thoughtful examination of the arrival in 1832 in Tasmania of a shipload of women, sent to redress the imbalance of genders in that colonial settlement.' (Publication summary)
Author's note:
In memory of
Lucy Halligan and of my father, William Power.
'If you don't behave yourself they'll send you to Tasmania' -Carillo Mean, Transports of Delight in the Stream of Consciousness