Her sentence is 14 years’ incarceration at a women’s prison in Australia. After her wealthy employer’s son seduces and impregnates her, she is falsely accused of stealing the employer’s valuable family heirloom and is convicted of theft. But regardless of how hard she tries to adapt, Mathinna knows she will never belong in their world.Įvangeline is a governess in London, the daughter of a vicar who’d educated her well, except in the realities of the physical world. She takes Mathinna to the governor’s mansion as an experiment: She will attempt to mold the girl into a refined British lady. “When most of the Palawa had been killed off, the remaining few were rounded up and brought to Flinders.”īecause Mathinna’s looks are more European than native and she can read and write, the wife of the settlement’s English governor considers her a curiosity. It’s 19th-century Australia, and Mathinna is an Aboriginal Palawa chieftain’s daughter raised by Anglos after British colonialists stole her people’s tribal land.
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