SCAPEGALLOWS
Book ID/图书代码： 07980007B12772
English Summary/英文概要： New South Wales, 1817. Margaret Catchpole is stranded at a settler’s homestead as the floodwater draws in, and she finds herself facing death - as she has several times before. She looks back over her life - the complex and stormy partnership with Will Laud, a hell-born-babe’, that led her into the world of smuggling and in to a double life. After Will is forced to flee the country, Margaret is taken on as a nursemaid by the wealthy Cobbold family, but a crime against them means she is tried and sentenced to hang. She avoids death but when an elaborate gaol escape fails, Will is shot dead and Margaret captured. Sentenced once more to hang, she looks death full in the face. But she doesn’t die. Her sentence is transmuted to transportation for life to Australia. The novel explores a deeply divided society. Ironically, by reaching the lowest depths and being cast out by the society which spawned her, Margaret finds her true role as an independent pioneer in a young colony.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 故事改編自英國17世紀末期Margaret Catchpole的真實故事。Catchpole如何兩次逃過絞刑臺？
Catchpole當時是個農村奴隸，因為偷馬為了救病危的鄰居被判了絞刑，她中途逃脫又被抓到，再度被判絞刑。她後來被移監到澳洲，因為她的勤奮工作與聰明機智，看她如何逃過絞刑臺重獲自由，後來結婚生子，再度回到社會的擁抱？作者將面臨死亡的靈魂描述十分生動，而等待的絞刑臺似乎夜夜都在哭嚎。
Awards/获奖情况：作者有多部作品，其中曾得過英國大衛海姆文學最佳小說獎(LIFE IN THE PALACE, 1988), 費伯紀念獎(THE FOG LINE,1989) 和2003布克獎的提名 (TURN AGAIN HOME, 2003)。
About the Author/作者介绍： Carol Birch was born in 1951 in Manchester and went to Keele University. She has lived in London, southwest Ireland and now Lancaster. For her first novel, LIFE IN THE PALACE, she won the 1988 David Higham Award for the Best First Novel of the Year. In 1991 she won the prestigious Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize with THE FOG LINE.
Scapegallow: One who deserves and has narrowly escaped the gallow, a slip-gibbet, one for whom the gallows is said to groan
-- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
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