01919cam a2200421 i 4500 550823867 TxAuBib 20220310120000.0 210206t20222020||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781982169145 hardcover 1982169141 hardcover TxAuBib rda Keneally, Thomas. The Dickens boy [Book] : a novel / Thomas Keneally. First Atria Books hardcover edition. New York, NY : Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2022. ©2020. 401 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages [399]-400). Edward Dickens, the tenth child of author Charles Dickens, has consistently let down his parents. Unable to apply himself at school and adrift in life, the teenaged boy is sent to Australia in the hopes that he can make something of himself - or at least fall out of the public eye. Determined to prove to his parents and more importantly, himself, that he can succeed in this vast and unfamiliar wilderness, Edward works hard at his new life amidst various livestock, bushrangers, shifty stock agents, and frontier battles. 20220310. Dickens, Charles 1812-1870 Family Fiction. Country life Fiction. Families Fiction. Immigrants Australia History 19th century Fiction. Secrecy Fiction. Australia Fiction. Bildungsromans. Biographical fiction. Historical fiction. Action and adventure fiction.