Jessica North has been researching Esther's story for over a decade, discovering intriguing new information. She is a program director at the Australian Research Institute for Environment and Sustainability at Macquarie University, and author of several guides.
'The fascinating account of a truly remarkable woman, cleverly interwoven with all the leading social and political events of the first three decades of early Sydney...North's writing is so utterly beautiful and compelling that reading her prose is akin to hearing the remarkable history for the first time' - Dr Catie Gilchrist, Dictionary of Sydney