Patsy Trench

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The Worst Country in the World (1) (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

In 1787 a handful of people - convicts, marines and government officials - sail across the world to settle a new colony and call it New South Wales.

In 1801 Mary Pitt, a widow with five children, migrates to New South Wales from her home in Dorset to live among these same convicts.

Two hundred odd years later Mary's great great great great granddaughter travels to what is now Australia to discover why her ancestress risked the lives of her entire family to make her home in a penal colony. She uncovers tales of astonishing bravery and bloody-mindedness, the origins of a unique form of class distinction, why her own Australian/English mother was the person she was and how what was once regarded as the worst country in the world became one of the 'luckiest'.

Book 1 in a family history series, pp301.

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Autor

Patsy Trench was born in England to an Australian mother and Anglo-Irish father. She began her working life as an actress, in the UK and in Australia, where highlights were performing alongside local legends Chips Rafferty and Skippy the Bush Kangaroo (not at the same time). She has been a scriptwriter, script editor, playscout and lyricist, and co-founder of The Children's Musical Theatre of London, creating devised musicals shows with primary school-aged children. She is the mother of two adult children and lives in London with a Freedom Pass. When not writing books she organises theatre tours and teaches theatre part-time at Kingston University to visiting students from overseas. Her hobbies are rag-rugging and fossicking for ancient artefacts on the Thames foreshore.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Patsy Trench
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781386159018
• Artikelnr.: 52635154