Book guide
The Secret River
One convict’s dream of freedom becomes a reckoning over land, belonging, and blood.
GenresHistoricalLiterary
Genre and trope pairingsHistoricalClass divideLiterarySocial commentary
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About The Secret River
Transported from London to New South Wales, William Thornhill sees a chance to begin again when freedom and land seem within reach. But as he claims a place on the Hawkesbury River, the lives of settlers and the land’s original inhabitants collide.
Reading signals
- Spice
- None
- Darkness
- Dark
- Pacing
- Balanced
Series
Thornhill Family / Colonial Trilogy · Book 1 of 3
Content warnings
- racism
- violence
- murder
- colonisation
- genocide
- racial slurs
- child death
- sexual violence
