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    <body><![CDATA[I usually love Colleen McCullough, but this was too wordy and too sad to keep my interest.  I quit after 125 pages. Other people seem to like it, though.<br/><br/><br/><br/>Joan]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Good book; fairly quick read; interesting topic - i never knew much about the first fleet of europeans sent over to australia.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Enjoyable historical fiction.  ]]></body>
    
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