Thank you to St Martin’s Press for sending me a copy in exchange for my honest review.
Did you read Weyward? It was magical and beautiful and an absolutely amazing debut novel. Of course I wanted to read Hart’s newest book the moment I could.
This is fantastical story that is steeped in the deep history of Australia and the convict ships that brought women to the colonies. We learn about the women factories where men could come pick out servants or wives as they would cattle. The history of the colonies is built on the backs of women who were exiled from their homes and forced to build up a nation on stolen land. It’s heartbreaking on so many levels.
Sisters Jessica and Lucy are telling their own sides of a story that we find is also entangled with twin sisters Mary and Eliza who were placed on a convict ship and exiled from their home in Ireland to head to Australia. The sister share a mysterious secret which also trickles down to Jessica and Lucy and all the women are connected to each other.
The descriptions of the land and ocean were so beautiful. I was also lucky enough to get a copy of the audiobook and the narration by Barrie Kreinik is incredibly gorgeous. The way she is able to carry these women’s voices with accents and cadence allowing us to fall into the narrative and bathe in the gorgeous storyline is absolutely incredible.
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