The potato factory

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Title:

The potato factory

Author:

Courtenay, Bryce, 1933-2012, author.

ISBN:

9780143004561

Personal Author:

Courtenay, Bryce, 1933-2012, author.

Publication Information:

Camberwell, Vic. Penguin, 2006.

Physical Description:

832 pages ; 20 cm.

Series:

Potato factory trilogy ; 1

Potato factory trilogy ; 1.

Series Title:

Potato factory trilogy ;

General Note:

First published by William Heinemann Australia, 1995.

Abstract:

Brothel mistress Hannah is Ikey Solomon's wife, whilst Mary is his sometimes mistress. When Hannah and Mary are banished to Australia, they set about raising their separate families. Ikey is drawn to the colony, where the destinies of both family groups are locked together by his greed.

Subject Term:

Criminals -- England -- London -- Fiction.

Australian fiction.

Convicts -- Tasmania -- Fiction.

Criminals -- England -- Fiction.

Genre:

Historical fiction.

Geographic Term:

Tasmania -- Social conditions -- 1803-1900 -- Fiction.

Tasmania -- Social conditions -- Fiction.

London (England) -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction.

London (England) -- 19th century -- Fiction.