num_pages: 256
description: In the remote outback of North-West Australia, English anthropologist Nicholas Keene and his wife Stella raise a curious child, Perdita. Her upbringing is far from ordinary : a shack in the wilderness, with a distant father burying himself in books and an unstable mother whose knowledge of Shakespeare forms the backbone of the girl's limited education. Emotionally adrift, Perdita develops a friendship with an Aboriginal girl, Mary, with whom she will share a very special bond. She appears content with her unusual family life in this remote corner of the globe until Nicholas Keene is discovered murdered.
language: English
title: Sorry
titlecomplete: Sorry
genres: Fiction, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literature, Australia, Novels
ratings_count: 530
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Longlist, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Miles Franklin Literary Award, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Prime Minister's Literary Awards
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Nita B. Kibble Literary Award
publisher: Harvill Pr