The Four Elizabeths

About the Book

The reader experiences the trepidation and traumas of being landed on a virgin shore where the men had to first erect tents to house the officials, marines, civilians, men and women convicts. From the first day Governor Arthur Phillip has the Union Jack raised on the shore of Port Jackson, the amazing progress of the country now known as Australia is described in easily imagined images.

About the Author

Following the success of her fi rst novel, The Four Elizabeths, which is the story of convicts who were deported by the First Fleet, in 1787, the author has bowed to reader’s requests and written this sequel. A few months after HMS Friendship’s women convicts were reallocated to other ships in the fl eet, in order to make way for farm animals, the New Life evolves. The reader experiences the trepidation and traumas of being landed on a virgin shore where the men had to fi rst erect tents to house the offi cials, marines, civilians, men and women convicts. From the fi rst day Governor Arthur Phillip has the Union Jack raised on the shore of Port Jackson, the amazing progress of the country now known as Australia is described in easily imagined images.