The Bright Side of My Condition

Author(s): Charlotte Randall

Fiction - General

"When the Captain find us stowaways and give us the choice between join the island or join the crew, all of us to a man cry island! island! So he put us ashore with a few provisions and a trypot and sail away." After escaping from the Norfolk Island jail on a whaling ship, Bloodworth and three fellow convicts are left on a remote southern island by a captain who promises to pick them up in one year. It will be nearly a decade before they are rescued. In the intervening years, four men with nothing in common but a desire to escape Norfolk Island and a need to survive, live together in cramped and freezing isolation. But they are no longer under the cruel control of their jailers, so it is freedom, isn't it? Based on the true story of four convicts who spent more than nine years on the Snares Islands in the early years of the nineteenth century, Charlotte Randall's latest novel is a riveting, intelligent and powerful work of fiction.

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Charlotte Randall is the award-winning author of seven novels. Her first, Dead Sea Fruit, won the South East Asian/South Pacific section of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for best first book and the Reed Fiction Award in 1995. Her much-praised second novel, The Curative, was joint runner-up for the Deutz Medal for fiction at the 2001 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. What Happen Then, Mr Bones? (2004) and The Crocus Hour (2008) were finalists for the same award.

General Fields

  • : 9780143570660
  • : Penguin Group New Zealand, Limited
  • : Penguin Books (NZ)
  • : 0.328
  • : November 2013
  • : 230mm X 152mm
  • : New Zealand
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 244
  • : very good
  • : very good
  • : en
  • : Feb-14
  • : Paperback
  • : Charlotte Randall