A groundbreaking story about identity, belonging and ownership.
Kate Grenville is one of Australia's finest writers. Her early
works have become modern classics and are admired by critics and
readers around the world. Her 1992 novel, The Idea of Perfection,
was a bestseller and winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction,
Britain's most valuable literary award.
In 2006 Kate Grenville was awarded the Commonwealth Writers' Prize
and the NSW Premier's Literary Award for The Secret River, and the
novel was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Kate lives in
Sydney with her family.
Grenville's A Room Made of Leaves won the Douglas Stewart Prize for
Non-Fiction at the 2021 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.
Paul Blackwell is a well-known Australian stage actor and
occasional film actor. He has appeared in many productions from
some of Australia's best-known theatre companies, including Company
B, Sydney Theatre Company, State Theatre Company of South
Australia, Patch Theatre and Opera Australia. He has appeared in
several films, though often in small parts. His recent film
appearances include Candy, December Boys, Hey Hey its Esther
Blueburger and the silent film Dr. Plonk.
"Fabulous historical fiction."
*The Australian*
"One of the most entertaining, accomplished, engaging novels
written in this country."
*The Courier Mail*
"The Secret River is a powerful, highly credible account of how a
limited man of good instincts becomes involved in enormity and
atrocity. It is, at one remove, a sane and moving allegory of
Australian development. It has quiet drama and drama of the hectic
ghastly breakneck kind. It would make a fine film.It has the
subtlety of being a sort of Swiss Family Robinson saga about the
Australian dream. In historical terms it dramatises the settler's
dream and it all but climaxes in its representation of the
Australian nightmare. Then there is calm and sadness and the colour
drained from the dream. The Secret River is a historical novel,
full of contemporary insight and it is also a subtle expression in
fictional terms of the myth of collective guilt for the fate of the
Aborigines. It is to Kate Grenville's credit that she never
surrenders her sense of the individual faces she captures as she
tells this story. I suspect a lot of readers are going to find this
book both subtle and satisfying."
*The Age*
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