WIN: Into The World by Steph Parkyn's Story Place!
To enter: tell us about the longest or most perilous journey you've ever been on!
Inspired by a true story, Into The World is a compelling novel of the amazing life of Marie-Louise Girardin who disguises herself as a man to battle perilous seas, her own self-doubt, and finding unforeseen loves on a journey to reclaim her child.
1791. In the midst of the French Revolution, unwed mother Marie-Louise Girardin takes one last look at her baby son before entrusting him to her friend, the revolutionary Olympe de Gouges. She must escape, and only the most daring plan will bring her both the anonymity she needs and the independence to return one day for her son.
Marie-Louise disguises herself as a man and joins a voyage of exploration employed as a steward on the Recherche, one of two ships commissioned to journey to the Great Southern Ocean to find the missing explorer La Perouse.
Protecting her identity throughout, Marie-Louise forms friendships among the eccentric naturalists. But tensions rise between the royalist officers and the revolutionaries, and Marie-Louise's position becomes precarious when she discovers someone on board knows the secrets of her past. When the expedition docks in Java, chaos erupts as they learn of King Louis XVI's execution and are imprisoned by the Dutch. Marie-Louise seems certain to be unmasked. Will she ever return to France and be reunited with her child?
https://www.facebook.com/AllenandUnwinBooks/photos/a.99183951158.110882.99174606158/10156135334211159/Competition open to Australian & NZ residents only, ten copies to giveaway across Facebook & Instagram, entries close 10am AEDT Monday 27 November with winners announced in the comments - good luck!
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