Christina Baker Kline Book order (chronological)

London 1840: Die junge Hebamme Hazel wird wegen Diebstahls zu einer Haftstrafe in einer australischen Sträflingskolonie verurteilt – eine Verbannung ans Ende der Welt. Der Schiffsalltag auf der Überfahrt ist hart, und die verurteilten Frauen sind der männlichen Besatzung schutzlos ausgeliefert. Trost und Freundschaft findet Hazel bei Evangeline, einer schwangeren Mitgefangenen. Sie verspricht der ehemaligen Gouvernante, ihr Kind sicher in die neue Welt zu bringen. Doch das Schicksal stellt die Frauen auf eine harte Probe, und als Hazel in Australien an Land geht, steht sie schon bald vor der schwersten Entscheidung ihres Lebens ...

Naive Evangeline lost her position as a governess and her grip on her destiny when she found herself pregnant out of wedlock. After spending months in Newgate prison, she doesn't know whether she should be grateful or despairing when she is moved to a prison ship. What she does know is that her child will almost certainly be born during the journey to Australia. On board, Evangeline strikes up a friendship with Hazel, practically a child herself, sentenced to seven years transport for stealing a silver spoon. Great Britain considers Australia an unpeopled colony, but Mathinna is the orphaned daughter of the chief of the Lowreenne tribe, one of a number of peoples whose lands have been seized and their way of life subject to criticism, study, and missionary zeal. Adopted by the new governor of Tasmania and brought to Hobart to live with the family, Mathinna is treated more like a curiosity than a child. Evangeline, Hazel, and Mathinna will become part of the story of the creation of a new society in the land beyond the seas

When a comment overheard by her teenage daughter forces Ginger to reveal a long-held family secret, she resolves to return to Martha's Vineyard and discover what really happened on that calamitous day and hopefully come to terms with it.

'Graceful, moving and powerful . . . a wonderful story that seems to have been waiting, all this time, for Kline to come along and tell it' MICHAEL CHABON

The author of "Bird in Hand" and "The Way Life Should Be" delivers a captivating story of two very different women who build an unexpected friendship: a 91-year-old woman with a hidden past as an orphan-train rider and the teenage girl whose own troubled adolescence leads her to seek answers

While the death of a parent is always painful, losing both is life-altering. When author Allison Gilbert lost both parents at age 32, she could not find any books that spoke to her with the same level of compassion and reassurance that she found in the support group she belonged to, so she decided to write one of her own. The result is a sensitive and candid portrayal of loss that brings together experiences from famous and ordinary grief-stricken sons and daughters that explores the regrets, heartache and sometimes, relief, that accompanies pain and healing.Always Too Soon provides a range of intimate conversations with those — famous and not — who have lost both parents, providing readers with a source of comfort and inspiration as they learn to negotiate their new place in the world. Contributors include Hope Edelman, Geraldine Ferraro, Dennis Franz, Barbara Ehrenreich, Yogi Berra, Rosanne Cash, and Ice-T, as well as those who lost parents to the Oklahoma City bombing, the World Trade Center bombings, drunk driving, and more.