Girl of Shadows
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What had they done? What had she and Sarah and Friday done?
1830: Convict girls Friday Woolfe, Harriet Clarke and Sarah Morgan have been transported to Sydney from London. Sarah has been assigned to jeweller Adam Green, Harriet is a maid for the Barrett family, and Friday is working as a prostitute in a brothel. Each of them is struggling to forget the brutal crime they committed.
But their fate is no longer theirs to control. Vicious underworld queen Bella Jackson holds the girls' futures in the palm of her hand, biding her time until she exacts payment for what she knows about their misdeeds.
Harriet, racked with guilt, becomes convinced that their lost friend is haunting them, and while Friday succumbs to the bottle, Sarah has to fight for everything she holds dear. Once again, the girls must join forces to save one of their own. But which one?
And in the background Bella Jackson waits and watches ...
Praise for Deborah Challinor:
'Challinor is a good storyteller; her characters have depth and her historical backdrops are well researched, seamlessly joining fact and fiction and creating a convincing, atmospheric yarn' Bookseller + Publisher
'Seamlessly fuses historical fact and engrossing fiction' Queensland times
Deborah Challinor
Deborah Challinor has a PhD in history and is the author of numerous bestselling novels, including the Children of War series, the Convict Girls series, the Smuggler's Wife series and the Restless Years series. She has also written one young adult novel and two non-fiction books. In 2018, Deborah was made a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to literature and historical research. She lives in New Zealand with her husband.
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Reviews for Girl of Shadows
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Second book in the 'Convict Girls' series. I read the first because Ann Gordon (nee King), matron of the Female Factory at Parramatta from 1827 to 1836, was my fourth great grandmother.The girls are living as assigned convicts in a web of danger. They live with the guilt of having committed murder and being blackmailed by their archenemy, Bella Jackson. Life is fairly tough, Sarah in working for a jeweller with a jealous wife, Harrie works as a maid and uses her needlework skills whilst being haunted and Friday drinks to cope with working as a prostitute. A great read.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This book is the second in the series by Deborah Challinor, set in colonial Australia.It continues the lives of the three friends, and how they cope after the death of their friend Rachel, while working as assigned convicts, and at the same time, trying to keep the notorious Bella Jackson, off their backs.Much of the same really, except set in a different place.