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When The Secret River  a novel about frontier violence in early Australia  appeared in 2005, it became an immediate best-seller. It also caused controversy for its unflinching depiction of Australias past. In the follow-up novel, Sarah Thonhill extends the story into the next generation.  This is the story of the youngest child of the family at the heart of The Secret River. 
Although this is a sequel to the earlier book, you dont need to have read The Secret River to enjoy Sarah Thornhill  this is a stand-alone novel.
Sarah is born in 1816, her father an ex-convict whos made good in the new colony of Australia. William Thornhill is a man whos re-invented hiimself. As he tells his daughter, he never looks back. Sarah grows up learning not to ask about the past.
But theres a secret in the Thornhill family, and when it comes out, as secrets will, it draws everything into its tangles and casts a long chill shadow over life in the Hawkesbury valley.
Its a chill that can still be felt there today. This is a book about the dark legacies hidden in the past, and how the inheritors of that past might begin to come to terms with it.