The Convict's Daughter: The Scandal That Shocked A Colony by Kiera Lindsey

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library copy with no external stickers. Protective plastic covering. Wear to book corners and edges, particularly top right front cover which has been bent back. Sticker on author synopsis page, otherwise interior is still very good.

This is a dramatic and fast-paced biography of a currency lass born to convicts who gained their freedom and fortune in 1840s Sydney.

At 15, Mary Ann Gill slipped out her bedroom window to elope with a gentleman settler. When her father discovered his daughter's disappearance, he pursued the couple and fired two pistols at his daughter's suitor, unleashing a national scandal.