TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grenville,Kate
TI  - The secret river
SN  - 1920885757
U1  - A823.4 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Melbourne
PB  - Text Publishing
KW  - Squatter settlements
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Convicts
KW  - Australia
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - gsafd
N1  - Maps on end papers
N2  - After a childhood of poverty and petty crime in the slums of London, William Thornhill is sentenced in 1806 to be transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. With his wife Sal and children in tow, he arrives in a harsh land that feels at first like a death sentence. But among the convicts there is a whisper that freedom can be bought, an opportunity to start afresh
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