A transferring and insightful novel concerning the life and instances of Samuel Pace, believed to be the final of the transported convicts to die in Australia, and a vivid recreation of life in Australia’s penal period by the bestselling writer of Soldier Boy.
‘It’s a superb story, Samuel. You’re a chunk of residing historical past.’
Oxford 1863- Younger Samuel Pace units a barley stack alight within the hope it’s going to earn him a mattress in jail for the evening. He needs nothing greater than a morsel of meals in his stomach and a heat place to sleep off the streets. What he receives is a sentence of seven years’ servitude, to be served half a world away within the penal colony of Fremantle, Western Australia.
When Samuel boards the transport ship Belgravia, he’s stripped of his clothes and even his identify, and given laws of when to rise, eat, clear and sleep. On arrival at Fremantle Jail, exhausting labour is added to the combination and he wonders if life can get any worse. The one solace he finds is a love of studying, which permits the likes of Tom Sawyer and Oliver Twist to turn out to be his lifelong mates.
Samuel is granted a ticket of depart in 1867 and full freedom in 1871, however what kind of life can a person forge for himself within the colony, with no abilities, no cash and no household? Will or not it’s the start of the life he has all the time dreamed of, or do some sentences actually by no means finish?
A vibrant recreation of the life and instances of the final identified convict to be despatched to Australia, The Final Convict is a transferring examine of previous age and loneliness, as one social outcast finds that means in his impoverished life by way of the facility of literature. Meticulously researched and brilliantly woven into an enticing fictional account, it’s an unforgettable story by an award-winning author and historian.
‘A narrative of hardship and privation, alongside excessive journey, a contemporary begin within the colonies, and the protagonist’s enduring solace in discovering the delights of literature. A ripping yarn.’ The Age
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