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Sarah Thornhill
Kate Grenville
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Description for Sarah Thornhill
Paperback. Very good copy in bright and clean dustwrapper. First edition. Signed by the author
Sarah Thornhill is the youngest child of William Thornhill, convict-turned-landowner on the Hawkesbury River. Her stepmother calls her willful, but handsome Jack Langland loves her and she loves him. Me and Jack, she thinks, how could it go wrong? But there's an ugly secret in Sarah's family. That secret takes her into the darkness of the past, and across the ocean to the wild coasts of New Zealand. Among the strangers of that other place, she can begin to understand. Kate Grenville takes us back to the early Australia of The Secret River and the Thornhill family. This ... Read more
Sarah Thornhill is the youngest child of William Thornhill, convict-turned-landowner on the Hawkesbury River. Her stepmother calls her willful, but handsome Jack Langland loves her and she loves him. Me and Jack, she thinks, how could it go wrong? But there's an ugly secret in Sarah's family. That secret takes her into the darkness of the past, and across the ocean to the wild coasts of New Zealand. Among the strangers of that other place, she can begin to understand. Kate Grenville takes us back to the early Australia of The Secret River and the Thornhill family. This ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857862556
SKU
KEX0303200
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Kate Grenville
Kate Grenville is one of Australia's most celebrated authors. Her bestselling novels, which have won many awards and have been published around the world, include The Secret River, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize; Lilian's Story; The Idea of Perfection, which won the Orange Prize for Fiction; and The Lieutenant. She is ... Read more
Reviews for Sarah Thornhill
Grenville inhabits characters with a rare completeness . . . She writes with a poet's sense of rhythm and imagery
Guardian
Here is someone who can really write
Peter Carey I was thrilled to find myself back beside the river I'd come to know so well in The Secret River. The power with ... Read more
Guardian
Here is someone who can really write
Peter Carey I was thrilled to find myself back beside the river I'd come to know so well in The Secret River. The power with ... Read more