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Scapegallows

Carol Birch

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.

  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : JUL 3, 2008
  • Imprint : Virago
  • Page Extent : 448
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781844083916
  • Price : INR 950
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Carol Birch

Carol Birch was born in 1951 in Manchester and went to Keele University. For her first novel LIFE IN THE PALACE she won the 1988 David Higham Award for the Best First Novel of the Year. In 1991 she won the prestigious Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize with THE FOG LINE.

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