The Secret River by Kate Grenville
The Orange Prize-winning author Kate Grenville recalls her family's history in an astounding novel about the pioneers of New South Wales. Already a best seller in Australia, The Secret River is the story of Grenville's ancestors, who wrested a new life from the alien terrain of Australia and its native people. London, 1806. William Thornhill, a Thames bargeman, is deported to the New South Wales colony in what would become Australia. In this new world of convicts and charlatans, Thornhill tries to pull his family into a position of power and comfort. When he rounds a bend in the Hawkesbury River and sees a gentle slope of land, he becomes determined to make the place his own. But, as uninhabited as the island appears, Australia is full of native people, and they do not take kindly to Thornhill's theft of their home. The Secret River is the tale of Thornhill's deep love for his small corner of the new world, and his slow realization that if he wants to settle there, he must ally himself with the most despicable of the white settlers, and to keep his family safe, he must permit terrifying cruelty to come to innocent people.The Hidden River, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Award for Best Novel and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and The Notion of Perfection, which won the Orange Prize for Fiction, are two of Kate Grenville's works of fiction. She is based in Sydney. Kategrenville.com is her official webpage.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781841959146 |
| ISBN 10 | 1841959146 |
| Title | The Secret River |
| Author | Kate Grenville |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Canongate Books |
| Year published | 2007-04-10 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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