The Secret River - Kate Grenville torrent

Category: Historical Fiction, Literature
Language: English
Keywords: Australian

Written by Kate Grenville
Read by Paul Blackwell
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

The Secret River
By: Kate Grenville
Narrated by: Paul Blackwell
Series: Thornhill Family, Book 1
Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 12-12-2012
Language: English
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

In 1806 William Thornhill, a man of quick temper and deep feelings, is transported from the slums of London to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. With his wife, Sal, and their children he arrives in a harsh land he cannot understand. But the colony can turn a convict into a free man. Eight years later Thornhill sails up the Hawkesbury to claim 100 acres for himself.

Aboriginal people already live on that river. And other recent arrivals - Thomas Blackwood, Smasher Sullivan, and Mrs Herring - are finding their own ways to respond to them. Thornhill, a man neither better nor worse than most, soon has to make the most difficult choice of his life.

©2005 Kate Grenville (P)2005 Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer: Heather Steen.