Exiled to Van Diemen's Land. 'Truly exceptional trilogy'' When Ralph kisses Ella, the daughter of his father's housekeeper, he has no idea of the trouble he is about to unleash. Ella is sent to Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire, to be 'safely' married, but she falls in love with Jem, the 'bad boy' of the village. (Contains some strong language and sexual scenes essential to the plot)
Jem is a poacher, and when he and his two cousins are found guilty of killing Lord Northampton's gamekeeper in 1841, he is transported to Van Diemen's Land for life, leaving behind Ella, his common-law wife. Pregnant and penniless, she faces the appalling lack of rights for women in Victorian England and is forced to make terrible choices.
While Jem suffers the deprivations of a brutal life in chains, Ella is determined her child will know its father. Brazen and shameless, if selling her body is the only way to raise the fare to follow him across the globe, then that is what she will do. Will the cost of her actions prove too high, for her, and for all those she loves? Can she and Jem ever be reunited?
On Different Shores is book one of three, and the ongoing nature of the story, inspired by real events in the author's family history, means that these are not stand-alone books. The story is split simply because there are too many pages for one volume. (There is an e-boxset) Although each book takes you to a pivotal moment in the story, all three need to be read in order to reach the conclusion. Also, be prepared for some explicit sex and sexual abuse necessary to the plot.
The story spans twenty years in the lives of Jem and Ella and takes them around the globe, crossing perilous oceans in sailing ships to the penal colonies of Van Diemen's Land, and to the goldfields of Australia, suffering the hardships many convicts and free emigrants suffered to found a British colony on slave labour.
Book Two is 'Beneath Strange Stars'.
Book Three is 'On Common Ground'.
Readers' Favorite Editorial Review - 5 stars 'On Different Shores (For Their Country's Good Book 1) by Rebecca Bryn is a powerful, character-driven, story of a young couple and their ill-fated love. Rebecca Bryn has gone a step further than any "Romeo and Juliet" tale by setting it in Victorian times. Women had no rights whatever, but Ella defies convention, earning money any way she can, and giving birth to Jem's son, resolute in her intention to escape her abusive husband, Harry.
Will she be defeated by Harry's single-minded passion to father a son of his own? If she escapes, can she endure crossing the globe with a toddler? Ella will move readers to tears, and to fury; she lives. All Ms Bryn's characters, the good, the bad, and the ugly, live. On Different Shores is the first book in a brilliant historical novel that takes the reader wherever Ella and Jem lead.'

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