7/6/2023 0 Comments Thornhill p smy![]() ![]() Sarah’s romance with Jack Langland is both tender and poignant, yet devoid of sentimentality. The novel is written in a unique and compelling first-person voice that somehow feels right for its time. For as new loves are formed, in this young ‘innocent’ generation, old truths come to the surface, and those who remember must find new and terrible ways to assuage the sins of the past.Īs a literary work, Sarah Thornhill has much to recommend it. ![]() Yet, it is essentially a tale of violence. This is the tale of the next generation of Hawkesbury River settlers – those who have grown up ignorant of the carnage so shockingly portrayed in The Secret River. Drawing on extensive family research, Grenville tells the story of Sarah, William Thornhill’s youngest daughter Jack Langland, a young aboriginal man orphaned by frontier violence and a young Maori girl who lived amongst them for a time. Sarah Thornhill is the sequel to Kate Grenville’s award-winning novel, The Secret River, which was set during the early years of the 19th century in the expanding colony of New South Wales. ![]()
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