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The secret river / Kate Grenville. by Grenville, Kate, 1950- HarperCollins, c2006. Call #: FICTION GRE Subjects British -- Australia -- Fiction.   Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- Fiction.   Penal colonies -- Australia -- Fiction.   Land tenure -- Fiction.   Commonwealth Writers Prize.   New South Wales -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.   Australia -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780006480709 (pbk.) 0006480705 (pbk.) 978002005982 1841957976 (2005 Canongate hc.) 002005980 9780006395386 (2007 HarperPerennial trade pbk.) 0006395384 (2007 HarperPerennial trade pbk.) Edition:  1st Canadian ed. Description:  334 p. ; 24 cm. Summary:  "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. 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 already live 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 research into her own family history, Kate Grenville vividly creates the reality of settler life, its longings, dangers and dilemmas. The Secret River is a brilliantly written book, a groundbreaking story about identity, belonging and ownership."--Publisher. Awards:  Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, 2006. Genre:  Historical fiction. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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