Sarah Thornhill is the youngest child of William Thornhill, convict-turned-landowner on the Hawkesbury River. Her stepmother calls her willful, but handsome Jack Langland loves her and she loves him. Me and Jack, she thinks, how could it go wrong?
But there's an ugly secret in Sarah's family. That secret takes her into the darkness of the past, and across the ocean to the wild coasts of New Zealand. Among the strangers of that other place, she can begin to understand.
Kate Grenville takes us back to the early Australia of The Secret River and the Thornhill family. This is Sarah's story. It's a story of love lost and found, tangled histories and how it matters to keep stories alive.
- ISBN10 0857862553
- ISBN13 9780857862556
- Publish Date 2 February 2012 (first published 29 August 2011)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 September 2015
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Canongate Books
- Edition Main
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 320
- Language English