Triumph Over Tragedy: An Extraordinary Woman's Ordinary Journey
A secret buried since 1820. A daughter who refuses to look away.
Sydney Colony, 1856. Seventeen-year-old Charlotte Bursill has always known her father as a respected auctioneer, churchman and pillar of Campbelltown society - until she finds a Ticket of Leave and a convict's pardon hidden in his study. The discovery unravels everything she believed about her family, just as her own life begins to unravel too.
Betrayed by a man she trusted and left to face an unplanned pregnancy alone, Charlotte is sent away from everything familiar - into a colony still shaped by convict shame, gold-rush upheaval, and the unforgiving judgement of "respectable" society. What follows is a sweeping, deeply researched saga of resilience: marriage and motherhood on the frontier, the grief of losing children to diphtheria and drought-era hardship, and the quiet, extraordinary strength of a woman who builds a life - and a legacy of fifteen children, seventy-five grandchildren and more - across eighty-six remarkable years.
Inspired by the author's own family history and meticulously researched from convict records, parish registers and colonial newspapers, Triumph Over Tragedy brings to life the ordinary women who quietly built the nation of Australia. It is a story of shame transformed into strength, of secrets that connect rather than divide, and of an extraordinary woman's utterly ordinary - and unforgettable - journey.
Perfect for readers of Kate Morton, Fiona McIntosh, Tea Cooper and Natasha Lester - and for anyone who loves a true-to-life Australian family saga spanning the convict era to the early twentieth century.
Book 2 in Brenda Inglis Powell's family history series.
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