Secret river. Grenville K.

The Secret River is a novel about the moral choice and its consequences, the most powerful work of anti -colonial literature, created on the basis of the family history of the writer Kate Grenville. In 1806, William Thornhill, an English poor man and a quick -tempered man, stealing boards, and he, along with his beloved wife, is deported to the new South Wales (future Australia). William's incredible love for the newly exotic corner of the new world is overshadowed by the fact that it gradually becomes clear: creating a house for your family means depriving the land of those who live here.