by Kate Grenville
Definitely one of those books where you wish you could jump in and change everything, change everyone's choices.
In 1806, Londoner William Thornhill is sentenced to be deported to New South Wales for the crime of theft. Taking his wife Sal and their children with him, Will starts a new life on the banks of the Hawkesbury river. But this land is already home to a group of aborigines and soon tensions between ...
A story of belonging and ownership read by Ron Cook.http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00ncwv7/The_Secret_River_A_London_Boatmans_Story/
Australia was populated by English felons, some of whom were convicted of very minor crimes for which the death sentence was demanded. Not all were hardened criminals, some were petty thieves, but all were pretty hopeless about their futures. In the late 1700's and early 1800's, they were pardoned f...
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