Kiera Lindsey’s The Convict’s Daughter: The Scandal that Shocked a Colony (Allen & Unwin) concerns a colonial scandal that was unleashed when the daughter of two successful emancipists attempted to elope with the wayward son of Dr John Kinchela, the previous Attorney General of New South Wales. It is a wildly improbable but true melodrama that of heartache and humiliation, betrayal and bankruptcy, love thwarted and love-triumphant.
It will be published later this month and launched in Adelaide and Melbourne in May.