'Sisters of the Heart' by Carolyn Kelly
ISBN 1 85863 943 3
e-mail address:Kellys@turboweb.net.au
cost:$15.95 Aust + pp
Inscriptions done happily

About the book:

Phoebe's crime was to steal a dress in which to bury her dead mother. 
Her punishment was the cruelty of transportation on a a convict ship in 1789 
to the struggling colonies of New South Wales.

Her life changes dramatically over the course of her sentence not least
because she finds freedom of the through Arbaroo, a native Aborigine girl who 
is filled with the same feelings of loss.

With a complex plot that does not flinch from revealing the prejudice 
of colony life, Carolyn Kelly has woven a tale of passion, sorrow and of the 
best and worst that lies at the heart of humanity. 

A compelling and absorbing book with the power to affect the reader long 
after she or he has turned the last page, not the least becasue so much
of the tale is true.

Tags: history, fiction, romance, passion, violence, reality, 
literature, women's issues, aborigines, conflict