D Lawrence-Young

Away Away from Botany Bay D Lawrence-Young

1791. Three years after being transported to Botany Bay for stealing shirts and jewellery, Jimmy Ashton, Mary Broad, her two small children, husband and several other desperate convicts steal a boat and escape from Australia's first convict colony. They set off on a long voyage north to find freedom. After many adventures fighting warlike Aborigines and storms at sea they succeed in crossing the shark-infested Timor Sea to arrive safely in Batavia (Indonesia). But there someone betrays them to the authorities. Will they now rot in a dark Batavian prison or be sent back to Botany Bay? Will they ever return to England?Based on a true story, D. Lawrence-Young has succeeded again in telling how a determined group of individuals take on a vengeful government to seek their freedom.