Starting Over by Jan Westerink | PB Memoir Discovering New Norfolk Pamela Leach

Discovering New Norfolk Pamela Leach

“He can’t bear to be anywhere near others

The ripples that he helped stir after 1961 grew into our present tourist hospitality

“…a valuable insight into life and conditions in Tasmania’s west coast mining towns a hundred years ago

Starting Over by Jan Westerink | PB Memoir Discovering New Norfolk Pamela LeachConvicts making a start in a new land Based on historical documents, Starting Over is the story of William Guest and Martha Gregory, separately convicted of theft and sentenced to transportation to Hobart Town in 1843, where they later married. The novel charts their love story and journey from Van Diemens Land to New South Wales, where they struck it rich as miners and innkeepers. A dramatic and moving account of the convict experience in colonial