The Secret River by Kate Grenville

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Pages have sunned. Dust jacket is in good condition with small tears to the top edge that are now covered with protective book tape. Interior and binding are still very good.

In 1806, William Thornhill, a man of quick temper and deep feelings, was transported from the slums of London to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. With his wife, Sal, and their children, he arrives in a harsh land he cannot understand. But the colony can turn a convict into a free man.

Eight years later, Thornhill sails up the Hawkesbury to claim a hundred acres for himself. Aboriginal people have already lived on that river. And other recent arrivals—Thomas Blackwood, Smasher Sullivan and Mrs Herring—are finding their own ways to respond to them.

Thornhill, a man neither better nor worse than most, soon has to make the most difficult choice of his life.

Inspired by Grenville's research into her own family history.