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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 is Sarah's story. It's a story of love lost and found, tangled histories and how it matters to keep stories alive.
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 also the author of Searching for The Secret River, the story behind the bestselling novel. Kate Grenville's convict ancestor inspired The Secret River, and Sarah Thornhill also has its beginnings in her family history. Along with The Lieutenant, these three novels form a loose trilogy about colonial Australia. www.kategrenville.com
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 which Kate Grenville evokes places and people is so remarkable that I could remember the smell of the air there - and it was no surprise to discover that Sarah Thornhill's story is as gripping and illuminating as her father's was
Diana Athill A graceful, passionate story of love, loss and treacherous family histories.
Marie Claire
Beautifully written.
We Love This Book
Be warned: [Sarah Thornhill] will wrench your heart ... Grenville's description of the harshly beautiful Australian landscape is unforgettable, more poetry than prose.
Guardian
Immensely readable
Sunday Times
Both brilliant fiction and illuminating personal history
Arifa Akbar
The Independent
This powerful saga of colliding histories blends romance and honesty
Mary Shine Thompson
The Irish Independent
It is with often marvellous vividness and clarity that Grenville evokes Sarah's world [she] is well inhabited by her creator, and through the eyes of this young woman, the physical and cultural strangenesses of a nation still clambering into existence spring richly to life
Belinda McKeon
The Guardian
Her voice has an attractive personality and proves adept at describing the landscape and those who struggle to survive in its unforgiving beauty
The Daily Telegraph
Kate Grenville has completed her trilogy with another enthralling tale
Ion Trewin
Sunday Express
Richly wrapped in language so colourful and lively, you can taste it
Tom Adair
The Scotsman
Grenville has once again vividly captured a world of conflict, change and a clash of cultures. This extremely enjoyable novel can be read alone or as part of the trilogy
Good Book Guide
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 which Kate Grenville evokes places and people is so remarkable that I could remember the smell of the air there - and it was no surprise to discover that Sarah Thornhill's story is as gripping and illuminating as her father's was
Diana Athill A graceful, passionate story of love, loss and treacherous family histories.
Marie Claire
Beautifully written.
We Love This Book
Be warned: [Sarah Thornhill] will wrench your heart ... Grenville's description of the harshly beautiful Australian landscape is unforgettable, more poetry than prose.
Guardian
Immensely readable
Sunday Times
Both brilliant fiction and illuminating personal history
Arifa Akbar
The Independent
This powerful saga of colliding histories blends romance and honesty
Mary Shine Thompson
The Irish Independent
It is with often marvellous vividness and clarity that Grenville evokes Sarah's world [she] is well inhabited by her creator, and through the eyes of this young woman, the physical and cultural strangenesses of a nation still clambering into existence spring richly to life
Belinda McKeon
The Guardian
Her voice has an attractive personality and proves adept at describing the landscape and those who struggle to survive in its unforgiving beauty
The Daily Telegraph
Kate Grenville has completed her trilogy with another enthralling tale
Ion Trewin
Sunday Express
Richly wrapped in language so colourful and lively, you can taste it
Tom Adair
The Scotsman
Grenville has once again vividly captured a world of conflict, change and a clash of cultures. This extremely enjoyable novel can be read alone or as part of the trilogy
Good Book Guide