Title: The sooterkin /
Authors: Gilling, Tom.
Publisher: Viking,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Changelings Australia Fiction.; Australia Fiction.
Abstract: "In the winter of 1821, the convict Sarah Dyer gives birth to the strangest child ever seen in Australia, a thing more seal than human. As news of the unfathomable birth spreads through the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land, outraged doctors come to peer under Sarah's skirts. The local chaplain suspects a virgin birth while the colony's resident man of science hails it as the New World's answer to the sooterkin, a freakish creature born to Dutchwomen one hundred years earlier."--Jacket.