The Potato Factory: The Australian Trilogy, Book 1
UNABRIDGED (23 hrs and 27 mins)
By Bryce Courtenay
Narrated By Humphrey Bower
Overall
(2005)
Performance
(1151)
Story
(1143)
Always leave a little salt on the bread. Ikey Solomon's favorite saying is also his way of doing business, and in the business of thieving he's very successful indeed. Ikey's partner in crime is his mistress, the forthright Mary Abacus, until misfortune befalls them. They are parted and each must make the harsh journey from thriving nineteenth century London to the convict settlement of Van Diemen's Land.
This is an amazing view of the 19th Century London poor and criminal class, and their migration to Van Deimon's Land. It is also a facinating introduction to Jewish life in London at that time.
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