Sarah Thornhill - Hardcover

A final entry in the trilogy that began with the best-selling The Secret River continues youngest daughter Sarah's efforts to uncover the Thornhill family's hidden legacy, which is complicated by the brutal origins of her father's fortune and Sarah's maturing love for handsome Jack Langland.

"Grenville inhabits characters with a rare completeness . . . She writes with a poet's sense of rhythm and imagery" (Guardian)

"Here is someone who can really write" (Peter Carey)

"I was thrilled to find myself back beside the river I'd come to know so well in The Secret River. The power with which Kate Grenville evokes places and people is so remarkable that I could remember the smell of the air there - and it was no surprise to discover that Sarah Thornhill's story is as gripping and illuminating as her father's was" (Diana Athill)

"A graceful, passionate story of love, loss and treacherous family histories." (Marie Claire)

"Beautifully written." (We Love This Book)

"Be warned: [Sarah Thornhill] will wrench your heart ... Grenville's description of the harshly beautiful Australian landscape is unforgettable, more poetry than prose." (Guardian)

"Immensely readable" (Sunday Times)

"Both brilliant fiction and illuminating personal history" (Arifa Akbar The Independent)

"This powerful saga of colliding histories blends romance and honesty" (Mary Shine Thompson The Irish Independent)

"It is with often marvellous vividness and clarity that Grenville evokes Sarah's world [she] is well inhabited by her creator, and through the eyes of this young woman, the physical and cultural strangenesses of a nation still clambering into existence spring richly to life" (Belinda McKeon The Guardian)