The Night Flower

**A Dickensian adventure of crime and transportation to Tasmania**

Miriam is a Romany girl drawn from freedom in the hills of the North East to poverty in London; Rose is forced by fate to take a governess’s job below her station. Circumstances force both into breaking the law, with dire consequences.

Barely surviving a long voyage on a prison ship, they arrive in a Tasmanian frontier town where they are sent to work in a nursery, run by a corrupt minister and his idealistic son, who soon takes a fancy to Miriam. But Rose watches jealously and makes plans to reverse their fortunes.