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Ireland, early 1800s. The Napoleonic Wars have ended, leaving an already disjointed country in peril. Maurice O’Dwyer, a young Irish agitator, considers the lifeless body of an English tithe-collector, slain under a rain-filled sky. From that moment it seems his fate is sealed: he and his young simpleton brother, Padraig, are exiled to Australia, An Astráil, to the convict-filled island of Van Diemen’s Land – leaving behind his love, his land and his liberty. But in the Central Highlands of Tasmania, ‘a dark place of haunting beauty’, Maurice discovers that there are allies in unlikely places.
The story is told through the eyes and voices of a wide range of characters, including Maurice O’Dwyer; his mother Maureen; Sir Roderick Fitzwilliam, a colonel in the English Army; Captain Jeremiah Reynolds, a vicious and manipulative officer; Máire O’Farrell, girlfriend of Maurice; Private George Potts, a young soldier; Kiuntah, an Aboriginal woman; and many more.