Thornhill Family Series by Kate Grenville

3.76 · 58 ratings
  • The Secret River (Thornhill Family #1)
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    The Secret River (Thornhill Family #1)

    Kate Grenville

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 2005

    The Orange Prize-winning author Kate Grenville recalls her family's history in an astounding novel about the pioneers of New South Wales. Already a best seller in Australia, The Secret River is the story of Grenville's ancestors, who wrested a new life from the alien terrain of Australia and its native people. London, 1806. William Thornhill, a Thames bargeman, is deported to the New South Wales colony in what would become Australia... more

  • The Lieutenant (Thornhill Family #2)
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    The Lieutenant (Thornhill Family #2)

    Kate Grenville

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2007

    A stunning follow-up to her Commonwealth Writers' Prize-winning book, The Secret River, Kate Grenville's The Lieutenant is a gripping story about friendship, self-discovery, and the power of language set along the unspoiled shores of 1788 New South Wales. As a boy, Daniel Rooke was always an outsider. Ridiculed in school and misunderstood by his parents, Daniel could only hope, against all the evidence, that he would one day find his place in life... more

  • Sarah Thornhill (Thornhill Family #3)
    #3

    Sarah Thornhill (Thornhill Family #3)

    Kate Grenville

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2011

    In the final book of a trilogy that began with her bestselling novel, "The Secret River," Commonwealth Prize-winner Kate Grenville returns to the youngest daughter of the Thornhills and her quest to uncover, at her peril, the family's hidden legacy. Sarah is the youngest child of William Thornhill, the pioneer at the center of "The Secret River." Unknown to her, her father--an uneducated ex-convict from London--has built his fortune on the blood of Aboriginal people... more

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