
The first in a stunning new series from Sunday Times bestseller Dilly Court London 1854 twenty-year-old Essie Chapman lives with her father in poverty stricken Limehouse working on the river as a boatman Her life seems set before her never to leave this part of London & forever at her father's beck & call Then one night she must transport a mysterious man from a foreign ship to the banks of the Thames a man who ends up renting a room in Essie's house identifying himself only as Raven' When curiosity gets the better of her Essie follows him & unwittingly becomes involved in something far greater than she could ever have guessed Finding herself on a ship bound for the penal colonies in Australia with Raven & his cousin Alice this is only the start of a remarkable journey taking her to the other side of the world & back again