This magnificent new novel from Booker Prize winner, Tom Keneally, spans several generations of a remarkable Australian family from convict years to the present day.
When film producer Dimp Bettany discovers the memoirs of her ancestors, John Bettany and Sarah Bernard, she is convinced that she has found her next masterpiece.
Through Dimp's correspondence with her sister, an aid worker in the Sudan, the stories of John Bettany and Sarah Bernard unfold: Sarah's internment in a cruel Female Factory and her curious friendship with an English murderess; and John's vivid impressions of a new colony, from a man who is ahead of his time.
Interwoven into this fascinating tale from the past are the lives of two women both searching for meaning and identity.
