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In the late 1800s, rather than run the risk of your under-achieveing children tarnishing your reputation at home, you sent them to the colonies. At least that is what Charles Dickens did with two of his boys. (And Trollope did it too.) 'Always a first-rate storyteller of a traditional kind.' The Guardian 'An engrossing and transporting read.' Financial Times In this joyful novel, our narrator is Charles Dickens's tenth child, Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens, known as Plorn. Sent, as his brother Alfred had been before him, at sixteen years of age, to Australia to learn to 'apply himself'. We follow his early Australian adventures in outback NSW learning to become a man from the most diverse and toughest of men. Part of Dickens' motivation was to separate these younger of his children from the Dickens family schism, where Charles had expelled his wife from the family home, keeping her sister Georgie there to run the household and taking up with the actress Ellen Tiernan. Plorn arrived in Melbourne in late 1868 carrying a terrible secret. He has never read a word of his father's work. After a very brief stopover he is sent out to become a gentleman stockman on a 2000 square mile statio

Who reads The Dickens Boy?

Author

Thomas Keneally

Publisher

Penguin Random House Australia

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781760893200

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction

Rating

4 / 5 (511 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14