Transported!

If you are looking for a good book to snuggle up with over the festive period then I can thoroughly recommend -

Remember Me by Lesley Pearse.

Thanks to all my lovely bloggy friends who told me to try this book when I blogged about the novel Sara Dane by Catherine Gaskin.  I'm really glad you told me about this one.

Remember Me is based on the true story of the life of Mary Broad and set in the 1780s.  After stealing a few items, Mary is sentenced to the gallows, but this is then changed to transportation and she is sent out on the First Fleet to Botany Bay.  The descriptions of the prison conditions and then the account of life on the transport ship are vivid in their awfulness.  But life at Port Jackson, the first settlement, is equally bad.  Mary and her family plan a daring escape.  I won't go into more detail, in case you want to read the book for yourself!

You can read about Mary Broad here at the Australian Dictionary of Biography website.

So, thanks again all those who recommended that I read this book.

Love, Liz