Convicts making a start in a new land...

Based on historical documents, Starting Over is the story of William Guest and Martha Gregory, separately convicted of theft and sentenced to transportation to Hobart Town in 1843, where they later married. The novel charts their love story and journey from Van Diemen’s Land to New South Wales, where they struck it rich as miners and innkeepers. A dramatic and moving account of the convict experience in colonial Australia. 

A dramatic and moving account of the convict experience in colonial Australia.