New Releases by Ethel Turner

"For nineteen years, San Quentin Prison, where her father was employed, was Ethel Turner''s home, and she has centered her first novel in and about the wall of California''s immense penitentiary. It is the story of a young girl, daughter of the captain of the guards, who had been trained to regard the thousands of convicts among whom she lived as inhuman automatons. Then, just as she was been awakened by her first innocent love affair, a young prisoner whom she is compelled to pass every day makes a passionate appeal to her sympathy. Gradually her prejudices are swept aside and her pity for him submerges her mind and her will. She aids him to escape and one meets him ''outside...''" --

In these stories set in Australia during the 1880s, the spirited Woolcot siblings test the endurance of their strict military father and gentle, young stepmother.