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Beyond the Blue Mountains by Jean Plaidy [i.e. E. Hibbert] is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This is a story set against a late eighteenth and early nineteenth century background, telling how the evils of their time affected the lives of three generations of women. Kitty Kennedy loses her lover before Carolan is born; Katharine, Carolan's child, chooses what must inevitably be a life of danger; but it is Carolan, sensitive and proud, bold and reckless, who must suffer most deeply and who is the central figure around whom events revolve.Her adventures in the East End, in Newgate Jail and in the foul women's quarters on the prison ship transporting her to Australia are told with terrible clarity and a powerful imagination. The profligacy, perversion, vice and cruelty of that age are forcefully recreated. Having survived the journey and been taken to the house of Masterman of Sydney, Carolan finds that her experiences have changed her from an innocent girl to a ruthless woman, determined to establish herself in the Masterman household, and her method of doing so is such as will haunt her for the rest of her life. The main characters in this unusual novel are not only vivid but convincing. There is the gay and amorous Marcus, vain Kitty, bawdy Margery and sweet Katharine; ther

Who reads Beyond the Blue Mountains?

Author

Jean Plaidy [i.e. E. Hibbert]

Publisher

Putnam; Putnam Adult

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780399115998

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Children'S, Fiction

Rating

3.81 / 5 (3 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13