Nappy King was one of thousands of women transported to Van Diemen’s Land during the Irish Famine, and one of the few to bring a child with them.

In From Fields of Stone, Isabel de la Rambelya weaves sensitivity and detailed research into an exploration of her great-great-grandmother’s life – from servant in Clifden Castle, Ireland, to Nappy’s years in Tasmania, as convict, settler, landowner, mother, wife and finally as a patient in the New Norfolk Insane Asylum.

Isabel’s two-decade-long journey of discovery shines a light on the human costs of the Irish Famine and Tasmania’s convict past.