![]() ![]() ![]() The story takes us to a time in the early nineteenth century on the banks of the Hawkesbury River, north of Sydney, where English settlers come face to face with the Indigenous Darug people who have long called the region home. The Secret River is a gripping portrait of the struggle and conflict of dispossession in early colonial Australia. It is an international best-seller and has been adapted for the stage and made into a television mini-series that was broadcast on the ABC in 2015. The Secret River, published in 2005, earned Grenville many literary awards including the Commonwealth Prize for Literature and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Miles Franklin Award. Kate Grenville is an Australian author whose popular titles include The Lieutenant, One Life: My Mother’s Story, Sarah Thornhill, and The Secret River – these books by Kate Grenville are now available to listen to as audiobooks. ![]()
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