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A Fringe of Leaves
- Narrated by: Deidre Rubenstein
- Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction
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Publisher's Summary
Set in Australia in the 1840s, A Fringe of Leaves combines dramatic action with a finely distilled moral vision.
Returning home to England from Van Diemen's Land, the Bristol Maid is shipwrecked on the Queensland coast and Mrs Roxburgh is taken prisoner by a tribe of Australian Aboriginals, along with the rest of the passengers and crew.
In the course of her escape, she is torn by conflicting loyalties - to her dead husband, to her rescuer, to her own and to her adoptive class.
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