Tuppenny Brown
"When Tuppenny Brown was released from prison and sent to New Zealand to make a new life for himself it was, as the Prison Visitor said, "the chance of a lifetime". But Tuppenny had reckoned without the influence of his old partner in crime, jake, who seemed determined to continue his thieving ways in the new land. Although Tuppenny had befriended a family on the voyage out, who promised him an honest and secure living, he was tempted and threatened to return to the only life he had ever known"--Back cover.