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Australian author Kate Grenville’s fifth novel, The Idea of Perfection, won the Orange Prize in 2001. Her bestselling novel The Secret River received the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2006 Booker Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Grenville’s other novels include Sarah Thornhill, The Lieutenant, Lilian ...
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1 gen 2005 · Kate Grenville. In 1806 William Thornhill, an illiterate English bargeman and a man of quick temper but deep compassion, steals a load of wood and, as a part of his lenient sentence, is deported, along with his beloved wife, Sal, to the New South Wales colony in what would become Australia. The Secret River is the tale of William and Sal’s ...
Lilian’s Story. Lilian’s Story, Kate Grenville’s first published novel, is part of a loose trilogy that includes Dark Places and Joan Makes History. Lilian Una Singer starts life at the beginning of the twentieth century as the daughter of a prosperous middle-class Australian family. She ends it as a cheerfully eccentric bag-lady living ...
13 ago 2020 · Kate Grenville says A Room Made of Leaves is her book she is most satisfied with. ‘The whole idea of questioning stories has cracked open for me – I don’t know where I go next with this.’
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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 ...
24 feb 2006 · Kate Grenville’s fictional account of the conflict that accompanied the settlement of New South Wales by exiled British convicts in the 19th century. London, 1806. William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart, is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but bearable - until William makes a mistake for which he and his ...
