Forgotten Places (Far From My Native Shore: A Collection of Australian Novels) (English Edition)

Johanna Craven

How far would you go to survive?. Van Diemen's Land, Australia. 1833. . English settler Grace Ashwell flees an abusive lover in Hobart Town, with six-year-old Violet in tow. In her head, escape is easy: find work in the northern settlements and earn enough for passage home to London.. But the terrain beyond the settled districts is wilder than Grace could ever have imagined. She and Violet find th…