Van Diemen's Land, August to December 1832.

• All characters are adults.
• Convict assignment, unpaid labour, imprisonment, solitary confinement and coercive custodial power.
• Colonial dispossession of palawa people is acknowledged through policy, theft and living consequence, never decoration.
• Pregnancy under custodial sexual coercion; pregnancy changes punishment but does not produce pardon.
• A flogging is graphic where earned; other violence includes a shooting, blood loss and death.
• Crime includes false statements, detained mail, bushranging, theft, perjury and institutional corruption.
• Alcohol dependence and a prior fatal pregnancy are shown through consequence, never spectacle.
• Sex cuts away at the door; desire, tension and aftermath stay on the page.
• Never instructional detail for weapons, drug synthesis or intrusion methods.
• No slurs written out. Bigotry shows through behaviour and consequence.

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