Meg Keneally's debut solo novel is an epic historical adventure based on the extraordinary life of convict Mary Bryant.
Meg Keneally has worked as a journalist, corporate affairs
professional and SCUBA diving instructor.
She is co-author with Tom Keneally of The Soldier's Curse and three
other books in the Monsarrat series. Her first solo novel was Fled,
published by Echo Publishing in 2019, followed by The Wreck (2020).
With Leah Kaminsky, she is co-editor of Animals Make Us Human
(Penguin, 2020).
Meg lives in Sydney.
An irresistible feast of history, adventure, intrigue and tragedy.
Epic yet tender. Authentic yet inspired
*Clare Wright*
I was utterly absorbed - swept up and transported into convict
life. Jenny Trelawney's struggles - her intelligence, courage and
grit - as well as Meg Keneally's beautifully understated writing,
kept me up past bedtime night after night
*Jane Rawson*
A real page turner, this breathtaking yarn will keep you on the
edge of your seat
*Dr Jonathan King, author of Mary Bryant - Her Life and Escape from
Botany Bay*
The novel, based on the real-life exploits of Mary Bryant, provides
a colourfully detailed showcase for the limits of courage, daring
and human resourcefulness.
Keneally's Jenny is a powerful personality and her life is full of
incident and tragedy - which was true of the woman on whom she is
based
*Daily Mail*
Moving and heartbreaking, the rhythm of the sea runs through every
page of this dramatic, evocative tale
*Woman's Weekly*
In Jenny Trelawney, the author has created a strong, resourceful
and tenacious character who uses every means at her disposal to
survive, and it's a hard book to stop reading. Keneally sets up a
momentum that's maintained through every stage of her journey [and]
each location is vividly realised
*The Herald*
In Jenny Trelawney, the author has created a strong, resourceful
and tenacious character who uses every means at her disposal to
survive, and it's a hard book to stop reading. Keneally sets up a
momentum that's maintained through every stage of her journey -
from a forest in Cornwall to her stint in a prison hulk, from
giving birth on the long voyage to Australia to the privations of
the colony itself - each location vividly realised
*Herald, Scotland*
If this is the standard Keneally is setting, it will be no surprise
to see that famed surname etched anew on the national's literary
awards
*The Saturday Paper*
Clever and engaging
*Good Reading*
Fled if one of the most satisfying historical fiction accounts in
recent memory
*The Saturday Paper*
Keneally's debut novel is a tragedy of epic proportions....It is a
testament to Keneally's dexterity that she is able to bring Jenny
into focus as both a historical figure and a stand-in for others
like her without losing the thread of her narrative. The reader
can't help feeling implicated as a spectator of unimaginable
hardship.
*The New York Times*
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