We were thrilled to host Christina Baker Kline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train, on the launch night of her ambitious and powerful historical novel The Exiles. Kline’s gripping tale of two English convicts and an orphaned Aboriginal girl in nineteenth-century Australia captures the hardship and hope of a trio of women’s lives. Kline discussed the process of writing the female-driven story with author Amor Towles (A Gentleman in Moscow).
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The Exiles
By Christina Baker Kline
Published by Custom House
In this gorgeous novel, Christina Baker Kline brilliantly recreates the beginnings of a new society in a beautiful and challenging land, telling the story of Australia from a fresh perspective, through the experiences of Evangeline, Hazel, and Mathinna. While life in Australia is punishing and often brutally unfair, it is also, for some, an opportunity: for redemption, for a new way of life, for unimagined freedom. Told in exquisite detail and incisive prose, The Exiles is a story of grace born from hardship, the unbreakable bonds of female friendships, and the unfettering of legacy.