Goldie Alexander

Elizabeth Harvey is a young London girl sent to Australia as a convict.
The story is told through diary entries and is very accurate. Lizzie at the time of being starving and overworked ends up working for a Surgeon and his family, Lizzie cares for young Emily and is on edge around Soldier Winston.

The book is pretty easy to read, however, there wasn't a true climax in this book in my opinion.
Also, my copy of this book seems to not exist on Goodreads so I am reviewing it on this since mine does not say Transported. Mine says Surviving Sydney Cove.


The book will make you realize how lucky you are, these people were suffering from sickness and starvation, lacking education and so much more. Reading this historical fiction novel talking about that time period caused me to reflect upon what we've gained in 2o21.

You are pulled into that world and after finishing, you look around you and go, "Wow"… (mehr)

Pity that Alexander had to go and spoil this perfectly good romance and mystery set in the 1950s with sex on a Luna Park ride of all things! The idea was great. A young jewish girl is intrigued by the stranger who has moved next door to her parents' shop. At the height of the Petrov affair, is this exotic Russian woman actually THE famous Edvokia Petrov who was snatched from a Darwin airport? Ruth thinks she is, but she is also preoccupied with the gorgeous Catholic boy she has recently met called Patrick. (And this is despite the father's horrible treatment of her and the tensions existing regarding "Reds Under the Bed".
This was an interesting book for me in that it filled in some of the gaps regarding the scaremongering of the time but Alexander then threw in the "forbidden romance" part and an epilogue where Ruth and Patrick meet 14 years later at an art show to spoil it all.
I also have to say the publisher of this book needs a better editor as I found quite a few typos in my volume.… (mehr)