This is the story of Margaret Catchpole, born into a smugglersď ˝ world in Suffolk in the late 1700s. As the valued servant of a wealthy family & a friend of criminals, Margaret leads a double life that inevitably brings about her downfall, & she is sentenced to hang not once, but twice. But she escapes the gallows & 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.