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Title: Bridget Crack
Author: Rachel Leary
Narrator: Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-01-17
Publisher: Wavesound Audio
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Van Diemen's Land, 1826. Bridget Crack, a desperate convict, flees the cruelty of her master into the impenetrable Tasmanian wilderness.
Saved from certain death by Matt Sheedy and his fellow bushrangers, her precarious existence among the volatile and murderous men is a different kind of hell. Hunted by soldiers, at the mercy of killers, and surrounded by roaring river and towering columns of rock, what will she have to do to survive?
Critic Reviews:
"There's a sense of menace on every pagethe kind of book that keeps you reading past midnight, holding on for dear life." (Rohan Wilson, author of To Name Those Lost)
"Bridget Crack is a new Tasmanian legend. This is a brilliant, haunting evocation of women and history." (Heather Rose, author of the Stella Prize-winner The Museum of Modern Love)
Members Reviews:
Historical fiction
Bridget Crackâs sadness at being torn from her homeland and sent to this vast, inhospitable landscape called Van Diemenâs Land mounted â her dissatisfaction and antagonistic nature would get her into far more trouble but her realisation would come too late to curb her ways.
After being sent to the âInteriorâ â the lonely and isolated centre of the country; covered in mountains, bush, wild animals and not much else â Bridget knew she couldnât stay with her current master. Pigot was a cruel, vindictive man and she was determined to flee as soon as she had the chance. But worse was to come â much worse; the bushrangers who found her, lost and almost dead certainly saved her life â but was it worth it?
Life on the run was harsh and tormenting â no food, only what she could steal and knowing the soldiers were alert for her always. Survival became a day to day battle. What would happen to this convict woman alone in the brutal countryside of Van Diemenâs Land?
Bridget Crack is the debut novel by Aussie author Rachel Leary and the writing is vastly different in a vague and disjointed way. Set in the early nineteen hundreds when the colony of Van Diemenâs Land, later to become Tasmania, was only a fledgling state, life was hard for both settler and convict. But for someone like Bridget Crack, it was worse than hard. A novel that is historical as well as literary, I was disappointed to find I didnât enjoy Bridget Crack as much as I expected to. But I would still recommend this novel as I am sure others will like it.
âBridget stood on the boggy patch of ground looking up at the road.â
Van Diemenâs Land, 1826. Bridget Crack is a convict, transported for seven years for being in possession of counterfeit coins. Initially happy to reach dry land, Bridget does not settle to what is expected of her as an indentured domestic servant. Her first position, in the home of a British Army officer, is relatively comfortable but Bridget does not realise this. She is reassigned to another position and, warned about the master, behaves in a way which has her returned to the gaol. This time, Bridgetâs hair is cut off as a punishment. When Bridget appears before the police magistrate, he orders that she be sent to the Interior.
âShe didnât care: didnât give a damn what they did to her. They could go to hell.â
Bridget is sent, miles from Hobart Town, to a hard life labouring for a cruel master. She decides to run away, to find the township of Jericho.
