Women on the rocks
Subtitle: a tale of two convicts
By: Kristin Williamson.
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: St Lucia, Qld
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
Subjects: Women prisoners -- New South Wales -- Fiction.; Female friendship -- Fiction.; New South Wales -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In 1820 Mary Jones is wrongly convicted of a crime committed by her best friend, Maria, and she is transported from England to the alien environment of colonial Australia. She is unexpectedly reunited with her old friend, Maria, who has adopted a new identity to avenge her past.