The Exiles
Book description
The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Orphan Train returns with an ambitious, emotionally resonant historical novel that captures the hardship, oppression, opportunity and hope of a trio of women's lives-two English convicts and an orphaned Aboriginal girl - in nineteenth-century Australia.
Seduced by her employer's son, Evangeline,…
Why read it?
2 authors picked The Exiles as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book was particularly intriguing to me because of the time, the 1840s, and the place, Australia. This is not a setting that I’ve ever read a book set in before, and I found it historically and culturally really interesting.
Kline is a talented writer and is particularly good at characterization. The book did not disappoint in that regard.
The Exiles drew me back to historical fiction in a big way—though I read quite a bit of the genre for my own work.
I loved this one because I’m dying to go to Australia. And secondly, the author’s research for this story is impressive.
It centers on the plight of female convicts who were shipped from London to Australia as indentured workers in 1840—many of them for small infractions. Evangeline, a former governess, is wrongly accused of stealing a ring given to her by the son of the wealthy family she works for. She’s soon off to the dungeon,…
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