Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
8.2
Points
20.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
112632
Points per Word
0.000178
Description
In 1789 in the remotest penal colony of the British Empire, a group of convicts and one of their captors unite to stage a play. As felons, perjurers and whores rehearse, their playmaker becomes strangely seduced.