The Bright Side Of My Condition

Charlotte Randall

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Penguin Books (NZ)
29 January 2014

Fiction & Literature; Historical fiction

The latest novel from award-winning author, Charlotte Randall, The Bright Side of My Condition is based on the true story of four convicts who were marooned on the remote Snares Islands in the early years of the nineteenth century. A gripping story of survival from a brilliantly intelligent novelist.

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 Islandpenal colonyon a sealing ship, Bloodworth and his three fellow convicts are left on a remote southern island by a captain who promises to pick them up ina year's time.

It will be many years before they see another ship. During that time four men, with nothing in common but a desire to escape and a need to survive, live together in cramped and freezing isolation. Slangam believes hard work will see them through, Toper puts his faith in the Divine, Gargantua leans on his learning and Bloodworth watches - both his fellow felons and the inhospitable environment.

Based on the true story of four convicts who spent more than nine years on the Snares Islands in the early nineteenth century, Charlotte Randall's latest novel is a riveting, intelligent and powerful work of fiction.

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2014 New Zealand Post Book Awards Fiction Pizefinalist

By: Charlotte Randall
Imprint: Penguin Books (NZ)
Country of Publication: New Zealand
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 154mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 328g
ISBN: 9780143570660
ISBN 10: 0143570668
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 29 January 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.