The Penny Heart

@2@@18@Sentenced to death for a simple confidence trick, Mary Jebb escapes the gallows ... but her reprieve is harsh: seven years in the unforgiving penal colony of Botany Bay.@19@@3@@2@Yet Mary is determined not to be forgotten, sending two pennies, engraved with a promise, to the two men who sealed her fate.@3@@2@Timid artist Grace Moore jumps at the opportunity to marry handsome gentleman Michael Croxon - happy if only to get away from her drunken father. @3@@2@But when Grace takes on a new cook, the two penny heart love tokens reveal she is tied to a world she didn't know existed ... A world of deceit, double-crossing, revenge and murder.@3@

Product details

• Authors: Martine Bailey, Bailey Martine
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.05.2015
• EAN: 9781444769852
• ISBN: 978-1-4447-6985-2
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 233 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION / Crime, Historical mysteries, Crime & mystery, Historical fiction, Historical crime and mysteries, suspense; food; convicts; An Appetite for Violets; Australia