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Original Title:	The Potato Factory
ISBN:	0749322632 (ISBN13: 9780749322632)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Potato Factory #1, The Australian Trilogy ##1

The Potato Factory (The Potato Factory #1)

Bryce Courtenay

Paperback | Pages: 739 pages

Rating: 4.11 | 8863 Users | 565 Reviews

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Ikey Solomon is very successful indeed, in the art of thieving. Ikey's partner in crime is his mistress, the forthright Mary Abacus, until misfortune befalls them. They are parted and each must make the harsh journey from 19th century London to Van Diemens Land. In the backstreets and dives of Hobart Town, Mary learns the art of brewing and builds The Potato Factory, where she plans a new future. But her ambitions are threatened by Ikey's wife, Hannah, her old enemy. The two women raise their separate families. As each woman sets out to destroy the other, the families are brought to the edge of disaster.

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Title	:	The Potato Factory (The Potato Factory #1)
Author	:	Bryce Courtenay
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 739 pages
Published	:	April 11th 1996 by Random House (UK) (first published 1995)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. Australia

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This is a historical fiction about the most notorious criminal in England in the early 1800's and his exile to Australia. It reads to me like a Dickens novel, set in the same time period. I've never actually read any other books that tell the story of how Australia was settled and how the convicts were brought here and treated once they arrived. The first half of the book is wordy, slow and hard to read. And only at the halfway point it gradually accelerates. So I doubt very much whether Ill

The Potato Factory by Bryce Courtnay.This excellent novel sat on my bookshelf for some months before I finally got around to reading it. I am not sure why, perhaps it was the title that did not strike the right cords. I even picked it up a couple of times, but dismissed it. What an oversight that was.'The Potato Factory' is a journey back in time to Dickensian London and all the filth and squalor that inspired Charles Dickens to pen his many novels, and in particular Oliver Twist.Although

First - I loved this book. After starting it on vacation (it was the only book at the rental home on the beach where we were) I had to find the others in this series. The storyline was so fascinating to me as a look into the lives of the poor and downtrodden - prisoners sent from Britain to Australia. Because of the people involved the language is very course and I wouldn't recommend it to people who are offended by such. I don't believe it is filthy for the sake of filth, but if this were a

Holy hell! This is one damn good book. Bryce Courtenay still amazes me in his level of research comparable to only authors such as Diana Gabaldon and Jack Whyte. It deals with the populating of the British colonies in Australia, Tasmaina, and New Zealand. While the accuracy of detail is impeccable, his skill as a storyteller is what keeps me hooked on ordering his books from Australia. Good God, I hope this man lives forever and keeps writing! Thank goodness that it is one book in a series of 3.

This is the first in the Australian trilogy:1.The Potato Factory2.Tommo & Hawk3.Solomon's SongI was hooked after the first chapter! Bryce Courtenay is noted for his ability to weave dramatic, graphic, human stories with historic fact. He did not disappoint with this book. I could not put it down. We meet Ikey, Hannah and Mary in 1820's England.. "dark times, bleak times, hard times". They survive in the under belly of English society. Their lives and their stories are woven together..Deemed

I read it... It was boring. The history you can glean from it on London and starting Australia is interesting enough. If you approach it as a way to get a glimpse of history through a story, it's not so bad. Just be sure that care more for the history, and slice of life, than the story.That's not to say there is not a story. There is, told in multiple facets, and joined in feasible, and reliable ways. I just never could get to the point that I cared about any of the characters.

This book has the quality of a folk legend re-imagined. The characters loom larger than life and protagonists endure years of the worst kinds of suffering before triumphing over their oppressors. The first half of this novel, set in nineteenth century London, is slowly-paced, but packed with eccentric, Dickensian characters, complete with dialect. The very eventful second half takes place mostly in Australia during its penal colony days, as the feud that boils for over 700 pages comes to a head.