REMEMBER ME

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF ONE WOMAN’S COURAGE

“As long as I’m still breathing then I’ll still hope.”

In 1786 Mary Broad, a mariner’s daughter, makes the biggest mistake of her short life and steals a silk hat from a passer-by.

For this crime she is sentenced to death.

But then Mary is given a reprieve. She is moved to a prison ship and told that she and several hundred other convicts are to sail to a new colony on the other side of the world – this fate for a girl who previously had never been further than Plymouth in her life.

Courage and determination are Mary’s only two assets. When faced with the horrific conditions on board and the unknown quantity of this new outpost of the Empire she is bound for, she vows to survive, whatever it takes.

Based on a true story which made Mary Broad a cause celebre two hundred years ago, Lesley Pearse’s new novel is one of the most gripping and moving tales of human spirit you will ever read.

“As moving and engrossing as any of Pearse’s other best-selling novels” The Bookseller