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By Mary-Lou Stephens
Australian Fiction
Tasmania, 1874. Growing up in the impoverished tenements along the Hobart Rivule., Harriet Brown, at just twelve years old, shears off her hair and pretends to be a boy to secure a job as label-paster at the George Peacock and Sons jam factory.
Four years later, the deceit becomes too much to bear and Harriet risks everything on the chance at a future with her ambitious friend and workmate Henry Jones. But this decision forces her into a new deception: play the role of expert jam maker, or else be cast out onto the streets.