No Way Back: The Journey of a Convict is the forty-seventh book in the My Story series by Scholastic UK. It was written by Valerie Wilding; her fifth in the series. The book was published on January 2, 2012. It was followed by Wartime Princess, also authored by Wilding.
Dedication[]
- "For Elsie, who really knows B'nore
With all my love"
Book description[]
- "It's 1789. Poor Mary Wade envies the rich people who loss her a half penny just to go away. One day she makes a mistake that lands her in London's filthiest prison. Mary's one chance of escaping the gallows is a long and perilous journey to the other side of the world.
What choices does she have when there is no way back?"
Plot[]
Characters[]
- Main article: List of No Way Back characters
Author[]
- Main article: Valerie Wilding
Valerie Wilding is a children's author who has penned over eighty books. Before writing full-time, she worked as an infant teacher and school librarian.[2] Wilding is the author of six books in the My Story series, including Bloody Tower, The Queen's Spies, Road to War, Highway Girl, and Wartime Princess. No Way Back is her fifth book in the series and her first to be based on a real person. For research, Wilding looked up the Old Bailey records for Mary Wade's trial. Reading the words "made [her] want to find out as much as [she] could" about Mary's life.[3]
Notes[]
- The original cover art for No Way Back indicates that the book was originally slated for the My Story spin-off My True Story, much like Jim Eldridge's Dodger!.
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