London, 1806 - William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal, is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but bearable until William makes a mistake, a bad mistake for which he and his family are made to pay dearly.
His sentence: to be transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. Soon Thornhill, a man no better or worse than most, has to make the most difficult decision of his life...
The Secret River is a universal and timeless story of love, identity and belonging.
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Kate Grenville (Sídney, 1950) es una de los autoras más conocidas de Australia. Ha publicado novelas, una colección de historias cortas y ensayos sobre literatura. Sus libros han sido traducidos a varios idiomas y galardonados con numerosos premios, entre los que destacan el Premio de Escritores de la Commonwealth, el Australia General Fiction Book of the Year Award, y uno de los más importantes a nivel mundial, el Orange Prize británico precisamente por La vida de Sarah Thornhill. Dos de sus novelas también han sido adaptadas al cine.