Early Sydney has beguiled many writers, and the latest to succumb is Kristin Williamson. She has combined an interest in the Rocks area with a self-confessed ‘obsession with our feisty female forebears’, and has produced an historical novel involving several real people.
Women on the Rocks: A tale of two convicts by Kristin Williamson
UQP, $29.95 pb, 396 pp
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