The Secret River
Registered by Beqi of Daventry, Northamptonshire United Kingdom on 2/24/2013
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
2 journalers for this copy...
London, 1806 - William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal, is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but bearable until William makes a mistake, a bad mistake for which he and his family are made to pay dearly. His sentence: to be transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. Soon Thornhill, a man no better or worse than most, has to make the most difficult decision of his life . . . The Secret River is a universal and timeless story of love, identity and belonging.
Journal Entry 2 by Beqi at Pigeonhole @ Daventry Moot Hall in Daventry, Northamptonshire United Kingdom on Friday, March 1, 2013
Released 11 yrs ago (3/3/2013 UTC) at Pigeonhole @ Daventry Moot Hall in Daventry, Northamptonshire United Kingdom
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
Taking this book (amongst many more!) along to the meet at Pigeonhole @ Moot Hall in Daventry. Meet starts at 12.30 on Sunday 3rd March. Head for the upstairs tea room. That's where the meet is and we have sole use of this lovely room, which contains the huge and heaving OBCZ shelves. High Tea deal of a pot of tea or coffee, a sandwich of your choice and a large slice of cake for £3.50 is HIGHLY recommended. Hope to see you there :)
As there were lots and lots of availables at the meet I've picked this to re-release. It's one we've read though so I'll add our reviews.
I really enjoyed this story of man against nature. You feel for the main character William even when he makes stupid decisions and is stubborn and you certainly feel for his wife Sal, dragged along and expected to make the best of things. There's plenty of food for thought in the treatment of the 'savage blacks' and the incomprehension of the Europeans that they might be displacing them.
Now having also read Lillian's Story and Dark Places by the same author I think she's a talented writer and I've got some more titles lined up ready to read.
This is a book I read 4 years ago now, but is remembered as beautifully sad and very well written.
KORKY'S DAD
Very good.
KORKY'S MUM (she's a woman of very few words sometimes!)
I really enjoyed this story of man against nature. You feel for the main character William even when he makes stupid decisions and is stubborn and you certainly feel for his wife Sal, dragged along and expected to make the best of things. There's plenty of food for thought in the treatment of the 'savage blacks' and the incomprehension of the Europeans that they might be displacing them.
Now having also read Lillian's Story and Dark Places by the same author I think she's a talented writer and I've got some more titles lined up ready to read.
This is a book I read 4 years ago now, but is remembered as beautifully sad and very well written.
KORKY'S DAD
Very good.
KORKY'S MUM (she's a woman of very few words sometimes!)
Journal Entry 4 by Korky at Peartree Bridge in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire United Kingdom on Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Released 10 yrs ago (5/1/2013 UTC) at Peartree Bridge in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire United Kingdom
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
Left under bridge 89, near the marina, of the Grand Union Canal.