by Carol Birch (Author)
This is the story of Margaret Catchpole, born into a smugglers' world in Suffolk in the late 1700s. As the valued servant of a wealthy family and a friend of criminals, Margaret leads a double life that inevitably brings about her downfall, and she is sentenced to hang not once, but twice. But she escapes the gallows and is transported with other convicts to Australia. A wonderful adventure story, Scapegallows takes inspiration from the life of the real Margaret Catchpole. A woman who lived by her wits, she was a slip-gibbet, a scapegallows.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 448
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Virago
Published: 03 Jul 2008
ISBN 10: 1844083918
ISBN 13: 9781844083916
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Prizes: Winner of EDP-Jarrold East Anglian Book Awards - Book of the Year 2008. Shortlisted for New Angle Prize for Literature 2009.