Sarah Thornhill
By: Kate Grenville
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9780802120243; 9780802121219
Subjects: Penal colonies; History; Fiction; Friendship; Aboriginal Australians; Land tenure
Description: Sarah is the youngest child of William Thornhill, an uneducated ex-convict from London who has built his fortune on the blood of Aboriginal people. With a fine stone house and plenty of money, Thornhill has re-invented himself. As he tells his daughter, he "never looks back," and Sarah grows up learning not to ask about the past. Instead her eyes are on handsome Jack Langland, whom she's loved since she was a child. Their romance seems destined, but the ugly secret in Sarah's family is poised to ambush them both.
Notes: The 3rd book of a trilogy of The secret river and The lieutenant.