Author(s): Rosemary Hayes

Fiction - YA

Part 1 of this trilogy begins in the late 19th Century with 12 year old urchin Jim and his sister Abbie, who make a living selling bits and bobs in the street to earn their keep a home. Then Jim is falsely accused of stealing a gold watch and he is charged and sent to Australia, to the recently founded boys' penal settlement on Point Peur! Will Abbie ever see him again?