FROM THE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 Mathinna, an
Aboriginal girl from Van Diemen's Land, is adopted by
nineteenth-century explorer, Sir John Franklin, and his wife, Lady
Jane. Franklin is confident that shining the light of reason on
Mathinna will lift her out of savagery and desire. But when
Franklin dies on an Arctic expedition, Lady Jane writes to Charles
Dickens, asking him to defend Franklin's reputation amid rumours of
his crew lapsing into cannibalism. Dickens responds by staging a
play in which he takes the leading role as Franklin, his symbol of
reason's triumph, only to fall in love with an eighteen-year-old
actress. As reason gives way to wanting, the frontier between
civilisation and barbarity dissolves, and Mathinna, now a teenage
prostitute, goes drinking on a fatal night.
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