This is the story of Margaret Catchpole, born into a smugglers' world in Suffolk in the late 1700s. As the valued servant of a wealthy family and a friend of criminals, Margaret leads a double life that inevitably brings about her downfall, and she is sentenced to hang not once, but twice. But she escapes the gallows and is transported with other convicts to Australia.
A wonderful adventure story, Scapegallows takes inspiration from the life of the real Margaret Catchpole. A woman who lived by her wits, she was a slip-gibbet, a scapegallows.
| ISBN: | 9781844083916 |
| Publication date: | 3rd July 2008 |
| Author: | Carol Birch |
| Publisher: | Virago an imprint of Little, Brown |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 435 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
This is the story of Margaret Catchpole, born into a smugglers' world in Suffolk in the late 1700s. As the valued servant of a wealthy family and a friend of criminals, Margaret leads a double life that inevitably brings about her downfall, and she is sentenced to hang not once, but twice. But she escapes the gallows and is transported with other convicts to Australia.
A wonderful adventure story, Scapegallows takes inspiration from the life of the real Margaret Catchpole. A woman who lived by her wits, she was a slip-gibbet, a scapegallows.
Scapegallows features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction
Scapegallows is available in Paperback
Scapegallows was written by Carol Birch and published by Virago an imprint of Little, Brown
Scapegallows has 435 pages
£9.89