Behind the Sun
Deborah Challinor
Aug 2015 · W F Howes · Narrated by Helen Duff
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Friday Woolfe is in London's notorious Newgate gaol, awaiting transportation for prostitution and theft. There, she meets three other girls: intelligent and opportunistic thief, Sarah Morgan, naive young Rachel Winter, and reliable Harriet Clarke. On the voyage to New South Wales their friendship becomes an unbreakable bond - but there are others on board who will change their lives forever. And in the land behind the sun, the only thing they have is each other...
About the author
Deborah Challinor is an Australian writer and a historian. Her first novel Behind the Sun, was released in December, 2012. The second, Girl of Shadows, was released in 2013. She attended Waikato University where she completed a Ph.D in New Zealand military history in 1998. All her historical novels have appeared in the top five of the New Zealand fiction bestseller list, six reaching number one. Deborah has also written non-fiction - Grey Ghosts, based on the research she did for her Ph.D. on New Zealander soldiers and the Vietnam War, and Who'll Stop the Rain?, about the effects of Agent Orange on the children of New Zealand's Vietnam veterans. In 1995 she won a New Zealand Returned and Services¿ Association Military History Scholarship, and in 1997 received a New Zealand History Research Trust Fund Award and funding from the New Zealand Lottery Grants Board for the first edition of Grey Ghosts. In 2015 her title's Tamar, Blue Smoke, White Feathers, Band of Gold, Kitty and Amber made The New Zealand Best Seller List.
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