Begins in Ireland in 1840s. Bride loses her father, mother and baby brother to the great potato famine. Then she & her remaining brother are separated in the terrible Workhouse. Finally she emigrates to Australia where she pretends she is a boy after enduring the advances of her new mistresses’ husband. She & her friend Gilbert run away to the goldfields and she dreams of bringing her brother to Australia. Finally she becomes part of a troop of actors because she can sew very well. p.24-26 ‘hands’ and thenp.30 ‘as they..’ to bay’.The hunger catches up with the family.