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Searching for the Secret River: The Story Behind the Bestselling Novel (Paperback)
$14.20 - Save $1.58 (10%) - RRP $15.78 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Searching for the Secret RiverKate Grenville's "The Secret River" was one of the most loved novels of 2006. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and awarded the Commonwealth Writer's Prize. This book tells the story of how Grenville came to write this book. It maps this creative journey into fiction, and illuminates the importance of family in our lives.
Full description- Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
- Published: 05 July 2007
- Format: Paperback 240 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Literary Studies: From C 1900 - | Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers | Australasian & Pacific History | Genealogy
- ISBN 13: 9781847670021 ISBN 10: 1847670024
- Sales rank: 15,150
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Full description for Searching for the Secret River
Kate Grenville's "The Secret River" was one of the most loved novels of 2006. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and awarded the Commonwealth Writer's Prize, the story of William Thornhill and his journey from London to the other side of the world has moved and exhilarated hundreds of thousands of readers. "Searching for the Secret River" tells the story of how Grenville came to write this wonderful book. It is in itself an amazing story, beginning with Grenville's great-great-great grandfather. Grenville starts to investigate her ancestor, hoping to understand his life. She pursues him from Sydney to London and back, and slowly she begins to realise she must write about him. "Searching for the Secret River" maps this creative journey into fiction, and illuminates the importance of family in all our lives.
