by Christina Baker Kline
This is the second book I've read by the author. The first, Orphan Train, was really good and the people exceptionally well-created and interesting. And of course their stories were phenomenal.
And I'll say the same thing about this book. But I'll not read another by the author. There's a certain lack of something...some degree of missing depth? It's hard to pinpoint. Despite the horrific and devastating events the people endured, I just didn't connect with any of them. There was only one character that I really, really liked, and was becoming very interested in hearing the end of her story--and she died.
But there's a lot of good history, well related, about Australia and England, aborigines and just plain folk. And so I'll recommend it to anyone who likes a good, sad yarn and an adventure of women who prevail despite impossible odds.
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