The Secret River Kate Grenville by Kate Grenville 9781925004328, 1925004325 instant download after payment.

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 family are made to pay dearly. His sentence: to be transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. In this harsh and alien environment, William makes his home in ‘unclaimed land’ - but is shocked to find aboriginal people already live there.

"Grenville, aware that one way of confronting the present is to interrogate the past, has forged ahead undaunted with a novel that tells a story of the convict system, Australian contact history, and the depredations of white settlement. She will no doubt be branded a black-armband novelist by one side and a cultural appropriator by the other. And in presenting the emotional complexities and moral dilemmas of all the various players, she will get into trouble with almost everybody. But readers with no predetermined case to prove and no ego investment in any particular critical position will take this novel as it comes and will make up their own minds about it."  -  Kerryn Goldsworthy, Australian Book Review

Kate Grenville  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 Miles Franklin Literary Award. Grenville’s other novels include Sarah Thornhill, The Lieutenant, Lilian’s Story, Dark Places and Joan Makes History.