Kate Grenville

The Secret River (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Winner of the 2006 Commonwealth Writer's Prize

"This is a novel everyone should read." Eileen Battersby, Irish Times

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. Soon Thornhill, a man no better or worse than most, has to make the most difficult decision of his life ...
The compelling new novel from prize-winning author Kate Grenville is a universal and timeless story of love, identity and belonging.

"Grenville shows again the excellent form that won her the Orange Prize" Sunday Times

"A magnificent novel - an unflinching exploration of modern Australia's origins." New Yorker

"Brilliantly atmospheric ... a profound journey of self-discovery." David Issaacson, Independent on Sunday

"Splendidly paced, passionate and disturbing." Salley Vickers, The Times

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847673534
• Artikelnr.: 38355581

Autorenporträt

Kate Grenville's bestselling novel The Secret River received the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award. The Idea of Perfection won the Women's Prize. Grenville's other novels include Sarah Thornhill, The Lieutenant, Lilian's Story, Dark Places, Joan Makes History and A Room Made of Leaves. Her 2024 novel Restless Dolly Maunder was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction.

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