Hope Adams was born in Jerusalem and spent her early childhood in many different countries, including Nigeria and British North Borneo. She now lives near Cambridge. She has written books for children and adults as Ad le Geras.
Beautifully written, Hope Adams has woven together an epic sea
voyage with an intriguing murder mystery to make an unputdownable
read
*Katie Fforde*
A gorgeous and compelling story with vibrant characters. I was
fascinated by the novel's inspiration and the real life story of
the Rajah Quilt
*Rachel Hore*
An intriguing murder-mystery, skilfully written and bursting with
colour and life
*author of Magpie Lane*
A fabulous book with a fascinating premise. A murder mystery drives
the story, but it's the characters who keep you entranced as, in
the confined space of a long sea voyage, these feisty inventive
women negotiate each other and their new world. I loved it
*Dinah Jefferies*
A fascinating prose patchwork of the women's lives, stitched
together by a twisting murder mystery. Engrossing and deeply
satisfying - over the course of the journey we learn about the
desperate lives of these women, many guilty only of petty
crimes
*The Times*
I so enjoyed this. It evokes an era when justice was cruel, but
also how the creation of something like a quilt gave hope and
substance to existence. A terrific read
*Elizabeth Buchan*
Dazzling. Adams takes the fascination history of a convict ship and
brings it to life in a captivating story filled with intrigue and
dark secrets. An immensely satisfying tale of guilt, innocent and
second chances
*author of The Au Pair*
Well-written, engaging and thoroughly compelling. I love it when
forgotten histories are brought to light, and touch the reader so
that they immediately want to know more
*Elizabeth Chadwick*
A gripping exploration of female solidarity in a time of crisis and
claustrophobia. Hope Adams sets the grubby injustices of a
misogynistic legal system against the beauty of creating a work of
art and, through that art, stitching together an unlikely
community
*Caroline Lea, author of The Glass Woman*
Hope Adams has skilfully patched a murder mystery into a historical
event . . . Masterful plotting, well-drawn characters, and a
plausible balance of despair for what was left behind and optimism
for what lies ahead add up to an immensely satisfying read
*Guardian*
Adams disguises a social-history lesson on women's rights as a
gripping period drama and we're here for it
*Cosmopolitan*
A fabulous, page-turning novel that kept me gripped. Bringing
together murder, convicts and patchwork quilting - all aboard a
ship bound for Australia - it's impossible not to become engaged
with these women and their individual plights - especially once
everyone becomes a suspect
*author of The Observations*
A ship of convict women - all with their secrets - on the way to a
new life in a new land, but facing danger all the way - this is a
locked room mystery to end all locked room mysteries!
*author of The Windsor Knot*
A fine story of suspense, sisterhood and society, reflecting the
harshness of women's lives and their desperation to survive in a
world that has scant regard for their wellbeing
*Daily Mail*
A page-turning murder mystery and a richly-drawn tale of women
caught up in a male-dominated world, hoping for a better life.
Descriptions of the poorer class of women in Victorian England are
moving and evocative, the period details terrifically
well-researched. I felt I was on that transport ship with those
women, facing the storms and living their joys and sorrows
*Carol Drinkwater*
Combines historical fiction with tremendously gripping
entertainment. Who on a ship of convicted women sailing from London
to Tasmania is a murderer?
*author of The Golden Rule*
A truly engrossing historical 'locked room' thriller
*Essie Fox*
A must-read for lovers of fearless historical fiction, and an
examination of the shocking treatment of women in our not-too
distant past
*author of The Deep*
Nerves fray, alliances form, and love blooms in this fast paced,
well-written novel. This is a great page-turner!
*Mystery and Suspense Magazine*
A historical episode artfully adapted in a tale that offers
glimmers of hope for women discarded by society
*Kirkus*
Wonderful, evocative, moving and suspenseful
*author of On Hampstead Heath*
A vivid, cleverly-crafted mystery that will keep the reader turning
the pages
*bestselling author of Letters from the Past*
It's a fantastically exciting story, and a wonderful novel. There
is so much more going on, on the Rajah, in this unity of women,
than a simple love story
*Antonia Honeywell*
Transforms an actual 19th-century sea voyage of female convicts
into a striking drama. The ship's young matron chooses a group to
sew a presentation quilt, but near their destination, someone stabs
one of the quilters. Evocative sketches of those on board reveal
the realities of poor women's lives - readers will be rewarded
*Publisher's Weekly*
A murder mystery with a great twist at the end . . . Gripping
*i*
Dangerous Women is a successful blend of two genres: a historical
novel, inspired by real events, and a murder mystery with a great
twist at the end. By the time I was halfway through I was
completely gripped, and couldn't put it down
*Wendy Cope*
An enthralling narrative . . . lays bare the painful lives of these
women, far from their homes and loved ones, and feeling the brutal
weight of the law
*Northern Life Magazine*
This atmospheric narrative excels in its depiction of the
relationship between female prisoners - largely petty criminals -
and the tragic backstories that have brought them together
*Mail on Sunday*
Packed with atmosphere . . . a terrific read
*Choice Magazine 'Book of the Month'*
A very fine novel - and, like the quilt it celebrates, a work of
love
*Mick Herron*
Utterly compelling and as finely wrought as the patchwork quilt
that inspired the story
*author of the bestselling The Last Hours*
Fascinating. Gives women without one a voice - a storming read
*Helena Pielichaty*
A compelling, immersive book that deftly weaves its beauty and
pathos. I'm still thinking about it
*Hilary McKay*
An enthralling story, inspired by true events
*Best*
A secret murder on a convict ship transporting women to Australia
in 1841 . . . this is an intriguing story, with its root embedded
in facts
*Andrew Taylor*
Intriguing . . . [Hope Adams] can stitch a great story
*Jewish Chronicle*
In vivid detail, Hope Adams illuminates life in convict quarters on
a stinking, storm-soaked ship, and delves into the lives of
individual women and the small tragedies that have condemned them
to be sent far away, with little hope of return
*Jewish Chronicle*
A well-paced page-turner illuminating a forgotten story that
reminds us how far we have come
*Jewish Chronicle*
Pulls you into the heart of its story, while celebrating
redemption, rehabilitation and the good in people. All set to the
backdrop of a truly fascinating slice of history
*Phase Eight Book Club*
Historical events and characters are cleverly blended into a
thought-provoking tale
*Candis*
Adams disguises a social-history lesson on women's rights as a
gripping period drama
*Cosmopolitan*
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