Wanting
By: Richard Flanagan
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press; Distributed by Publishers Group West
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York; [Berkeley, Calif.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780802119001
Subjects: Fiction; Indigenous women; Aboriginal Australian Children; Aboriginal Tasmanians; Aboriginal Australians
Description: Assuming the governorship of the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land, Sir John Franklin and his wife adopt a young Aboriginal girl, Mathinna, and ten years later after Franklin and his crew disappear in the Arctic, Charles Dickens takes an interest in the story, which has a profound effect on his own life.