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The year is 1820 and Hilda Perry is left to run her fathers Portsmouth Inn with her trusted head brewer, Angus Drew. Working tirelessly to support her household and her languorous husband, Hilda is caught blindsighted one evening with the news of her husband's affair with a young opportunist from the local Men's Club. Thinking she has thwarted the affair by sending the young tramp from her house, Hilda is later attacked on the way home from her beloved Inn, stripped of her clothes and dressed in rags and thrown into the woman's prison. In a case of mistaken identity she is wrongly tried in court and set on a ship bound for New South Wales penal colony to do a seven year sentence for theft. Bolter is the story of a woman trying to come to terms with an unjustified, unwanted change of life. The confusion and anger and sadness that must be dealt with while struggling to just stay alive in what surely would have been the most hostile and vulnerable situation for women of that era. This is a story about dignity, survival and revenge.

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Nieta Van Bladel is the author of the novels Hard Nor' West and Dead East and illustrator and author of several children's books including the Tilly and Dragadonna series. Born in Fremantle, Western Australia in the early seventies, Nieta spent much of her young life on the move with her mother and sister. After leaving home at the age of fifteen, Nieta set out to conquer the world. Her adult life was soon to mirror her childhood, moving from one town to another across Australia with her two children. Now a grandmother of two, Nieta continues her semi-nomadic life, using the magnificent Australian landscape and the people she meets to bring unique and authentic characters to life.

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