'exuberant, cruel, surprising, a triumphant evocation of a period and a people filled with both courage and ugliness.' New York Times Book Review 'A deeply satisfying historical novel that does not shy away from issues that continue to be relevant today. It's also a great love story.' -- Mark Rubbo, Readings 'While Sarah Thornhill is billed as a sequel, anyone who hasn't already read The Secret River should not be put off. This is a novel that stands by itself and that will be treasured, I'm sure, by generations to come. It is that rare book that manages to wholly engage both head and heart, and it's a long time since I've been quite so sorry to say goodbye to a character at the end of a book as I was saying goodbye to Sarah. Grenville has done a splendid job here, and anyone who loved The Secret River will not be disappointed by Sarah Thornhill.' Canberra Times 'Grenville's vivid fiction performs as testimony, memory and mourning, within this collective, post-colonial narrative.' Weekend Australian 'A beguiling love story...The voice of illiterate Sarah, in which the whole story is told, is Grenville's great triumph...The book is a moving double love story - of a wild, romantic love and a slower, more mature, developing variety - an imaginatively convincing recreation of history and a celebration of country tenderly and beautifully observed, but above all it is a powerful plea for due acknowledgement and remembrance of the veils of the past...We may not be able to change the actions of the past the gave us this country, Grenville says through charismatic Sarah Thornhill, but if we are not at least mindful of them we are no better than fools or accomplices.' Adelaide Advertiser 'Sarah Thornhill is the book of a writer of the first rank and there are plenty of things in it that are powerfully realised and that touch the heart...she is a gift of a writer...a haunting performance.' Age 'If you read just one Australian novel this year, make it this one. Sarah Thornhill is a powerful story simply told...As a heroine, Sarah is an admirable addition to the list of Kate Grenville's characters, and her intellectual journey could be a blueprint for all Australians...Sarah Thornhill is a must-read, if only as a motivation to re-examine Australia's white history.' Melbourne Weekly 'Sarah Thornhill is a beautifully told story of early Australia and the triumphs and struggles of its convicts, free settlers and aborigines.' Australian Women's Weekly 'From page one, the voice of Sarah Thornhill transports us to 1880, to Kate Grenville's beloved Hawksbury River. Grenville is the best of history teachers, light of touch with no interesting rock left unturned.' UTS newsroom 'Beautifully written, with sufficient backstory to be enjoyed without first reading the previous two installments, this novel can be read as a dissection of a cultural clash or an allegory for colonialism, but at heart, the novel uses fiction to search for reason within history.' Kirkus Reviews
Winner of ABIA Australian General Fiction Book of the Year 2012. Shortlisted for Queensland Premier's Literary Awards: Best Fiction Book 2012 and Prime Minister's Literary Awards (Australia) 2012 and NSW Premier's Literary Award Christina Stead Prize for Fiction 2012. Miles Franklin Literary Award 2012 and IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2013.
Title: Sarah Thornhill
Subtitle:
Contributors:
By (author)
Kate Grenville
ISBN 13: 9781921758515
ISBN 10: 1921758511
Publisher: Text Publishing Co
Imprint: The Text Publishing Company
Publication Date: 22/02/2012
Place of Publication:
Melbourne,
Australia
Edition:
BIC Subjects:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Dewey Classification:
A823.00
(DC23)
;
A823.00
(DC22)
NBS Classification: Unclassifiable: no BIC
Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Height: 230mm
Width: 152mm
Year: 2012