“The Exiles” by Christina Baker Kline is a story of early Australia told through the lives of three women. Pregnant by her employer’s son, Evangeline finds herself exiled to an Australian penal colony. During the voyage, she makes a friend of Hazel, a midwife and herbalist. In Australia, the third woman enters the picture in the form of Mathinna, the orphaned daughter of an aboriginal chief.
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