# A Fringe of Leaves

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- Book: [A Fringe of Leaves](https://www.bookquiver.com/patrick-white/a-fringe-of-leaves) ([A Fringe of Leaves.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/patrick-white/a-fringe-of-leaves.md))
- Authors: [Patrick White](https://www.bookquiver.com/patrick-white)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4644-393-4
- Published: 2011-02-22
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Set in Australia in the 1840s, A FRINGE OF LEAVES combines dramatic action with a finely distilled moral vision. Returning home to England from Van Diemen's land, the Bristol Maid is shipwrecked on the Queensland coast and Mrs Roxburgh is taken prisoner by a tribe of aborigines, along with the rest of the passengers and crew. In the course of her escape, she is torn by conflicting loyalties - to her dead husband, to her rescuer, to her own and to her adoptive class.