Evelyn ConlonBesprekingen
Auteur van Cutting the Night in Two: Short Stories by Irish Women Writers
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There were those who disagreed or course, stating that by the mid 1800s they had largely improved the route to Australia and the conditions in which free immigrants travelled.
Our conversation led to the potato famine and the mass exodus from Ireland. Well read as our group is, everyone was aware of this tragic event, but some of us did not realise these young women were brought out to help fill the shortage of female labour in a new and developing Australia.
Ethical or not, these girls faced a frightening and unfamiliar future and most of our group felt the author did an admirable job of mixing fact with fiction, even if the characters lacked a certain amount of essence.
If Australian history is your thing, you will enjoy this novel from a restrained, yet very readable author.