Searching for the secret river
By: Kate Grenville
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Clipper Large Print
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Rearsby
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9781407412207
Subjects: Families; Family; Large type books; Prisoners; Squatter settlements; Biography
Description: Searching for the Secret River is the story of how Kate Grenville came to write her award-winning novel (The secret river). It all begins with her ancestor Solomon Wiseman, transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life, but who later became a wealthy man and built his colonial mansion on the Hawkesbury. Increasingly obsessed with his story, Grenville pursues him from Sydney to London and back, and then up the Hawkesbury itself.
Notes: Originally published: Melbourne, Vic.: Text, 2006; Edinburgh: Canongate, 2007.