Baker Kline shared personal stories about her muse for writing “Orphan Train,” during a private dinner party at the home of Seven Hills parents Kari and David Ellis on Feb.
These three women each orphaned in their own way, find opportunity where none existed, and freedom of a challenging sort. This epic historical novel brings us a powerful and painful rendering that shows us what it took to build a new world. I can not even imagine surviving a trip such as this in my wildest dreams. Kline’s attention to detail captures every single harrowing moment. The ship is filled with woman convicts and sets sail in a former slave ship. But Hazel has learned midwifery from her mother and even how to use herbs in healing. And the worst part of it is that her own mother had set her to it. Hazel’s sixteen with plenty of hard-living under her young. When she is wrongly accused of stealing it, she’s sent off to Newgate Prison and from there on to Van Dieman’s Land ( now known as Tasmania ) in Australia.Įvangeline meets Hazel on the ship. You see, they plan on taking her back to civilization where she will be treated as a trinket.Ĭhapter one and we are in London where we meet Evangeline who has also been recently orphaned and is working as a governess in a big where her employer’s son has given her much more than the “ring” that belongs to his family. Living quite wildly on the island of Flinders in Australia in 1840, she’s been hiding in the bushes for almost two days hoping to avoid the clutches of a visiting governor and his wife who have taken a fancy to her. The prologue introduces us to Mathinna the 8-year-old orphaned daughter of an Aborigine chief.
Now she’s back with this wonderful novel of colonial Australia and the convicts who made it what it is today.
She did it with THE ORPHAN TRAIN years ago. Love the cover! Love the story! Kline has once again knocked it out of the book park.
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