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Item Information   Holdings     Author Notes & Sketches     Fiction & Biography     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Summary       More by this author     Grenville, Kate, 1950-     Subjects     Penal colonies -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Fiction.     Land tenure -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Fiction.     Historical fiction     New South Wales -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Grenville, Kate, 1950-       by title:      The secret river / K...

The secret river / Kate Grenville. by Grenville, Kate, 1950- Edinburgh : Canongate, 2005. Subjects Penal colonies -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Fiction.   Land tenure -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Fiction.   Historical fiction   New South Wales -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction. ISBN:  9781841957975 1841957976 Description:  334 p. ; 24 cm. Summary:  London, 1806 - William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal, is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but bearable until William makes a mistake, a bad mistake for which he and his family are made to pay dearly. His sentence: to be transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. The Thornhills arrive in this harsh and alien land that they cannot understand and which feels like a death sentence. But among the convicts there is a rumour that freedom can be bought, that 'unclaimed' land up the Hawkesbury offers an opportunity to start afresh, far away from the township of Sydney. When William takes a hundred acres for himself he is shocked to find aboriginal people already living on the river. And other recent arrivals - Thomas Blackwood, Smasher Sullivan and Mrs Herring - are finding their own ways to respond to them. Soon Thornhill, a man neither better nor worse than most, has to make the most difficult decision of his life. Requests:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Central Library General Fiction F Available Request Copy Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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