It is 1789, and Phoebe is on her way to New South Wales aboard a convict ship. All she ever did was to steal a dress in which to bury her mother. With child by a sailor on the ship, she is abandoned upon arriving at the penal colony. She faces a seven year sentence half way around the world from her home. The man who loves her, without Phoebe's knowledge, is chasing across the sea after her. She meets and befriends Arbaroo, a native Aborigine girl with similar feelings of grief and loss. Because of this friendship, Phoebe's life changes over the period of her sentence. Carolyn Kelly's accurate presentation of life in the colony goes beyond a mere historical novel as she presents a story of romance, adventure, passion and sorrow. At the same time, the author does not ignore the hatred, violence and prejudice in the eighteenth century Australian penal colony.

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