{"product_id":"9780006395386","title":"The Secret River","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Secret River\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Kate Grenville\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cfont face=\"ElectraLH-Regular\"\u003e\u003cp align=\"LEFT\"\u003eA life of petty crime and poverty on the streets of 19th-century London sentences William Thornhill—along with his wife and children—to exile in the colonial outpost of Australia. But among the convicts of New South Wales there is a whisper of the possibility of freedom, away from Sydney and up the Hawkesbury River, for those who dare to stake a claim.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"LEFT\"\u003eIn a richly layered epic that recalls such international modern classics as\u003cem\u003e The True History of the Kelly Gang\u003c\/em\u003e, Kate Grenville tells the heart- renching story of a family in exile. Sweeping across the 19th century, from the teeming banks of the Thames in London to the hardscrabble frontier settlement of Sydney, Australia, \u003cem\u003eThe Secret River \u003c\/em\u003esets us down in an unforgiving land and masterfully confronts us with the brutal price of colonization.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780006395386\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":41091647570126,"sku":"9780006395386","price":16.17,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780006395386","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}