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Sara Dane

By: Catherine Gaskin
Narrated by: Helen Keeley
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The international best-selling rags-to-riches saga of a convict woman's ambition and courage in colonial Australia. A gripping pause-resister - more than two million copies sold worldwide.

Sara Dane is an 18th-century young Englishwoman, unjustly sentenced and transported to the penal colony of Australia. Follow Sara's struggle to raise herself from the status of a convict to a position of wealth and power.

Sara faces many challenges, from the savage voyage aboard a convict ship to the corruption and prejudice rife in New South Wales. Life in the colony is harsh, and Sara has to contend with natural disasters and convict outbreaks, as well as the snobbery of the high society she wishes to enter.

Sara's life is also influenced in often surprising ways by the men who love her, childhood sweetheart Richard Barwell, ship's officer-turned-landowner Andrew Maclay, Frenchman Louis de Bourget, and the Irish political prisoner Jeremy Hogan.

A compelling historical novel full of adventure, romance, rivalries, tragedies, and triumphs, also broadcast as a popular TV mini-series and radio series.

©2022 The Estate of Catherine Gaskin (P)2022 Wyndham Media Ltd Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Inspiring Australian Saga

Critic reviews

"A grand story." (Yorkshire Evening Post)

"[A] fine sweep of urgent vitality." (The Times)

"A magnificent piece of evocative writing." (Glasgow Herald)
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I loved this book from beginning to end. I hope to listen to more of her books.

Brilliant!!

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A thoroughly enjoyable yarn, and the narrator is good with accents. However the continual mispronunciation of simple English words spoils it.

Fascinating novel, pity about the narration

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Errors of pronunciation were very irritating. Some names but also words in normal use. Surely these should be checked and corrected

Great story

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The narrator was excellent very enthusiastic about what she was reading. The author has created an exciting tale of adventure full of ups and downs and switchbacks, love, loss and a thirst for life lived to the full, in spite of, maybe because of the challenges it held.

Pioneer spirit of one woman and many men

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