![]() Grenville's other novels include Sarah Thornhill, The Lieutenant, Lilian's Story, Dark Places and Joan Makes History. The Idea of Perfection won the Orange Prize. Her bestselling novel The Secret River received the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Kate Grenville is one of Australia's most celebrated writers. The Secret River is a brilliantly written book, a groundbreaking story about identity, belonging and ownership. Inspired by research into her own family history, Kate Grenville vividly creates the reality of settler life, its longings, dangers and dilemmas. Thornhill, a man neither better nor worse than most, soon has to make the most difficult choice of his life. And other recent arrivals-Thomas Blackwood, Smasher Sullivan and Mrs Herring-are finding their own ways to respond to them. Aboriginal people already live on that river. But the colony can turn a convict into a free man.Įight years later Thornhill sails up the Hawkesbury to claim a hundred acres for himself. ![]() With his wife Sal and their children he arrives in a harsh land he cannot understand. In 1806 William Thornhill, a man of quick temper and deep feelings, is transported from the slums of London to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize and Australian Book Industry Awards, Book of the Year. ![]()
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