“If Australia’s convict-built roads and sandstone cottages could talk, one could only imagine what they would say. Romance writer Tea Cooper has spent countless hours in museums and libraries trying to do just that.

The Wollombi-based author captures the essence of colonial-era Australia in her latest historical romance novel, The Currency Lass. Currency lasses (and lads) were the first generation of native-born Australians of European descent – the children of convicts and emancipists.”