The Secret River

Kate Grenville · 2005 CE · Novel · Australian · Contemporary

William Thornhill, a Thames waterman transported for theft in 1806, takes up land on the Hawkesbury River in New South Wales, where the Darug people already live. His claim to a farm of his own sets him on a collision with them that the novel declines to soften.

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