The Dickens BoyIn 1868, Charles Dickens dispatches his youngest child to Australia. Like his brother Alfred before him, 16 year old Edward is expected to learn to apply himself in what his father considers to be the new land of opportunity. Posted to a remote sheep station in New South Wales, Edward discovers that Charles Dickens' fame has reached even there, as has the gossip about his father's scandalous liaison with an actress. Amid colonists, ex convicts, local

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