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Scapegallows
Carol Birch
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Description for Scapegallows
Paperback. * A convict colony in New South Wales, Australia is the setting for Carol Birch's new novel, based on real events. Now out in paperback, Birch proves once again that she is 'a born storyteller' TIMES Num Pages: 448 pages, map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 126 x 29. Weight in Grams: 320.
This is the story of Margaret Catchpole, born into a smugglers' world in Suffolk in the late 1700s. As the valued servant of a wealthy family and a friend of criminals, Margaret leads a double life that inevitably brings about her downfall, and she is sentenced to hang not once, but twice. But she escapes the gallows and is transported with other convicts to Australia.
A wonderful adventure story, Scapegallows takes inspiration from the life of the real Margaret Catchpole. A woman who lived by her wits, she was a slip-gibbet, a scapegallows.
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844083916
SKU
V9781844083916
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10
About Carol Birch
Carol Birch was born in Manchester. Author of seven novels, she has won the David Higham Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was longlisted for the 2003 ManBooker Prize. She lives in Lancaster.
Reviews for Scapegallows
'Birch deftly tells a story spanning several decades, with an intensity that is . . . lyrical . . . . and evokes the period without compromising her complex diachronic concerns
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'[Birch has] a first class voice . . . An exciting and evocative fictional version of the life of Margaret Catchpole . . . The ... Read more