The Secret River Chicago Publishers' Award (1970) These prose vignettes are clever

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The Secret River Chicago Publishers' Award (1970) These prose vignettes are cleverThe Orange Prize winning author Kate Grenville recalls her family's history in an astounding novel about the pioneers of New South Wales. Already a best seller in Australia, The Secret River is the story of Grenville's ancestors, who wrested a new life from the alien terrain of Australia and its native people. London, 1806. William Thornhill, a Thames bargeman, is deported to the New South Wales colony in what would become Australia. In this new world