Deborah J. Swiss

The Tin Ticket: The Heroic Journey of Australia's Convict Women (2010)

Take an interesting story, do impeccable research, then ruin it all with extravagant prose and over-emotional drama – that’s The Tin Ticket. Nothing speaks more for the need of a good editor than this book. The writing is bad. There are too many adjectives used and after a while one does get tire...