Book guide
The Exiles
Three women cast out by empire find survival, loss, and fragile hope in nineteenth-century Australia.
GenresHistoricalLiterary
Genre and trope pairingsHistoricalClass divideLiterarySocial commentary
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About The Exiles
This historical novel follows English female convicts transported to Australia and an orphaned Aboriginal girl whose life is reshaped by colonisation. Through their connected stories, it explores punishment, displacement, female resilience, and the harsh possibilities of a new world.
Reading signals
- Spice
- None
- Darkness
- Dark
- Pacing
- Balanced
Content warnings
- child abuse
- child death
- death
- genocide
- racism
- rape
- sexism
- sexual assault
- slavery
- grief
- death of parent
- murder
- pregnancy
- miscarriage
- confinement
- colonisation
- deportation
