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A Tattooed Heart

By: Deborah Challinor
Narrated by: Helen Duff
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It's 1832. Convict girls Friday Woolfe, Sarah Morgan and Harriet Clarke have been serving their sentences in Sydney Town.

Each of them has begun to make a life for herself, but when Harrie's adopted child, Charlotte, is abducted, the girls must risk their very freedom to save her. But will Friday's desperate battle with her own vices drive her to fail not only herself but those she loves and all who love her?

©2015 Deborah Challinor (P)2016 W.F. Howes Ltd Contemporary Contemporary Romance Fiction Historical Fiction Romance

Critic Reviews

"Seamlessly fuses historical fact and engrossing fiction." ( Queensland Times)
"Challinor is a good storyteller; her characters have depth and her historical backdrops are well researched, seamless joining fact and fiction and creating a convincing, atmospheric yarn." ( Bookseller + Publisher)
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loved this series. well written and interesting with great narration.
not sure what to read now!

Brilliant series

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sad to see it end :( hopefully the characters come up in other stories

loved this series!

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Amazing series which I have binged as I couldn’t put it away. I loved hearing the convicts journey and the interactions with nz Māori. I didn’t like how the Māori people were portrayed and the nz accent was terrible in the narration. The accents didn’t do the story justice.

Wonderful series

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Easy listening series, APART from the terrible NZ accent and mangled Maori words by narrator

Good writing, engaging characters

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Really nice listen. The books in the series flowed so well it could have been one big book. Nothing earth shattering but I was hooked on getting to know what happened with each of the characters. Thoroughly enjoyed the series.

Easy Listening

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It only took a week to listen to all four books. So engrossing. I believe it would be interesting if the author chose to follow it through to another generation. Seamless history with flesh and blood characters. Deborah Challinor is my new favourite historical romance author.
I believe this would translate well to television.

What a satisfying end to a great series

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I absolutely loved this series and was sorry when it ended. looking forward to reading more of Deborah Challinors books.

wonderful series

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I loved the entire series. Once I'd listened to the first book, I had to get the rest and I listened to them all one after the other! Well written and utterly engaging - the plot twists were unexpected but perfect. I was taken (I was going to say transported) to the Sydney Town and penal colony of NSW of the 1800s with so much skill that I kept forgetting that I was reading a work of fiction. The narrater was brilliant and perfectly portrayed all of the characters with conviction and humour.

Fantastic series

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Great story line if australia in convict time, read well. I’m freaky enjoying the books

Really enjoying the series of books

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