No Time for Tears - Couverture souple

Watchman, Alan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1698603037 ISBN 13 : 9781698603032

Editeur : Independently published, 2019

Synopsis

Two days before Christmas 1847, Irish teenager, Jane Bell with her destitute mother and two siblings enter the Lowtherstown workhouse. Early the next year Jane accepts a place as one of many female orphans of the Earl Grey Scheme who were sent to the colony of South Australia a decade after its foundation. On disembarking, Jane works as a domestic servant for George Kingston, a prominent South Australian businessman and politician. Her friends reject domestic life for the more lucrative earnings in prostitution.Jane develops a relationship with Samuel Macartney, a handsome labourer, but also reluctantly finds herself Kingston's concubine after the death of his wife. Inevitably she becomes pregnant but does not know who fathered the child. Kingston accepts no responsibility and dismisses her from his employ after she gives birth to a girl. Destitute once again Jane's misery and misfortune are exacerbated with the subsequent unexpected death of her child.A recently arrived immigrant to Adelaide, a Jew fleeing persecution in Lithuania who had lost his Irish wife in Dublin during childbirth, Stephen Watchman is attracted to Jane, resulting in their marriage. In a cruel twist of fortune, after only four years, Stephen dies of asthma. Stubbornly resourceful and resilient, this young Irish woman’s story is of endurance despite unimaginable hardship and deprivation in two countries.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1698603037
• ISBN 13: 9781698603032
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 445
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