![]() ![]() But the issues are faced in context with honesty and tact. It shows the harsh truths of a convict transportation experience, including confronting realities such as female factories, severe corporal punishment and violent self-defence. Scatterheart is not a gentle book, it doesn’t side-step unpleasantness. It interweaves her present predicament with reflections of her life past. Lili Wilkinson tells the story of Hannah Cheshire, a well-born London girl who we meet in the midst of her confusion and despair over her sudden change in circumstances. ![]() ![]() Scatterheart sits itself between the First Fleet and the Gold Rushes, but it’s delightful fictional story encompasses the themes of fear and hope in the journey to an unknown land that are common to both periods of history. ![]()
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