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Books. The Secret River. Kate Grenville. Canongate Books, Nov 20, 2008 - Fiction - 352 pages. *NEW NOVEL RESTLESS DOLLY MAUNDER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024* FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AND WOMEN’S PRIZE-WINNING AUSTRALIAN NOVELIST London, 1806. William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal ...
In the early 1800s, a pardoned convict in New South Wales faces a crisis of conscience when he lays claim to land inhabited by Indigenous Australians. Watch trailers & learn more.
The Secret River took five years and twenty drafts to write. The first handwritten draft of the novel was included in a 2010 exhibition at the Mitchell Library in New South Wales titled 100 Objects, which was part of the Mitchell Library's centenary celebration.
The Secret River Summary. Next. Strangers. The novel begins on a man named Thornhill's first night in New South Wales. He wakes up and steps outside his hut, where an Aborigine man confronts him. They yell at each other, and Thornhill goes back to bed scared. The novel then jumps back in time to Thornhill's birth in 1777 to a very poor family.
6 mag 2015 · WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that this video may contain images and voices of deceased persons. Based on Kate Grenville'...
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In the early 1800s, a pardoned convict in New South Wales faces a crisis of conscience when he lays claim to land inhabited by Indigenous Australians. Watch trailers & learn more.
The Secret River is set in the early nineteenth century, on what was then the frontier between British colonists and Australia’s indigenous people: the Hawkesbury River, fifty miles from Sydney. Many of its details are based on my own family history. Like the character William Thornhill, my great-great-great grandfather Solomon Wiseman was an ...
