Her Jailer's Secrets

A broken family's fight against a brutal justice system

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Pub Date 8 Apr 2022 | Archive Date 11 May 2022

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In 1786 Elizabeth Fitzgerald, a 26 year old woman, became involved in England's brutal justice system and found herself exiled from her homeland to Botany Bay in the antipodes where she had to endure brutality, near starvation, love and a shipwreck off Norfolk Island with her friend Jane Fitzgerald. She bore twin girls to a marine William Mitchell while on the island and began her own family in this strange new land, as she never expected to ever see her family members, or friends, ever again.

On her return to Sydney she began a new life with another soldier, Thomas Wright, with whom she had another child but was imprisoned again for selling her children's rations to purchase rum where she met a strange cockney woman named Margaret, who was in charge of the prison and who changed her life.

William Mitchell, who returned to England carried out an investigation into who Margaret really was as she had now died, and in doing so came up against Irish rebels who threatened his life but finally gave him a sealed letter as to her true identity, that could not be opened by anyone other than one of the two Fitzgerald women.

In 1786 Elizabeth Fitzgerald, a 26 year old woman, became involved in England's brutal justice system and found herself exiled from her homeland to Botany Bay in the antipodes where she had to endure...


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Elizabeth got caught pulling stolen goods and was sent us to seven years transportation. On her first day she met Jane Faye and they would be friends until Jane’s sad untimely death. In the interim they would suffer the same deplorable circumstances, love the same man in both bore children out of wedlock. Throughout their whole ordeal they kept coming back to Margaret it kindly woman whose identity was truly unknown to the two women. It would be the man they loved William and Jane son Billy who would eventually find the answer to who Margaret really was. I really enjoyed this book although I thought the dialogue was a bit childish and I don’t know if that is how they truly talked back then, but it made reading the book awkward and not a style I was used to. When William and Billy ran into the Irish rebels I could barely understand what the rebels were saying in the old man was almost entirely unintelligible. Having said that I kept reading the book because it was not good. I love historical fiction and when you read a book where you can tell research was done well it is worth finishing it and I did and loved it. That is why I gave it five stars. I was sad when Elizabeth didn’t want to stay with Tom, but as this was real life there really wasn’t anything the author could do about that. I was given this book by Net Gally and the publisher and I am leaving this review voluntarily please forgive any grammar or punctuation errors as I am blind and dictate my review but all opinions are definitely my own.

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