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The Secret River (Paperback)

by Kate Grenville (Author)
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Product details

  • Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Canongate Books; New edition edition (7 Sep 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 184195828X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1841958286
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 6,170 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Review
"We have had to wait five years for The Secret River but the wait has been worth it... Splendidly paced, passionate and disturbing." The Times "Grenville, as ever, describes an Australia so overwhelmingly beautiful that readers will lust after its sunbaked soul too." Daily Telegraph "A sad book, beautifully written and, at times, almost unbearable with the weight of loss, competing distresses and the impossibility of making amends." Observer "Grenville's skill is to turn what could have been too obviously a representative moral fable into a rich novel of character." Sunday Telegraph"

The Independent, 1/09/06
In this dazzling novel . . . Grenville achieves a fine balance of
sympathy for th