Publisher's Synopsis
This is the long awaited sequel to Charles Dickens' novel, Great Expectations, yet with a focus on the powerful activities of the convict hero Abel Magwitch. Suffering under corporate skulduggery and a broken heart, Miss Havisham becomes a recluse raising the beautiful Estella who taunts her childhood friend Pip Pirrip Pip helps Magwitch on the frost-bitten Kentish moors prior to transportation to Australia. Magwitch never forgets. Becoming seriously wealthy in Australia, Magwitch anonymously funds Pip and returns to Britain only to be recaptured as a felon. Magwitch perishes in prison leaving his heirs, Estella and Pip, to travel to Australia in search of the Magwitch Fortunes.
