Five out of five star review for A Troubled Heart by Tricia McGill. The novel is available on amazon and other online bookstores. To use an apt cliché Finn and Esther the main characters in talented novelist Ms McGill’s novel A Troubled Heart are ‘chalk and cheese’. Homeless orphan Runaway Finn had lived with a group of boys who survived living on their wits and theft in London. Arrested for a minor crime when fifteen years Finn is transported to Tasmania. Esther’s deceased father a doctor and mother emigrated from England to Tasmania. They were devoted to each other and were a good example to Esther of what it meant to share life with another. In 1838, on the first day of Finn’s parole, when he leaves hospital after an injury Finn is penniless. Esther, alone in the world lives with a family where she is employed to teach a small girl. She tumbles down the steps. Finn helps her up. She thanks him and asks who he is. He tells her he is a homeless ex-convict. Esther believes she is ...
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