The secret river by Kate Grenville : an adaptation for the stage / by Andrew Bovell.
Publication details: Strawberry Hills, New South Wales : Currency Press, 2013.Description: xxvi, 94 pages : black and white illustrations, photographs ; 21 cmISBN:- 9781925005004 (paperback)
- Drama -- English -- Australia -- 20th century -- Texts
- Penal colonies
- Prisoners
- Squatter settlements
- Australian drama -- 21st century
- Convicts -- Australia
- Convicts -- Australia -- Drama
- Convicts -- Australia -- Fiction
- Dharug / Daruk / Darug people (S64) (NSW SI56-05)
- Settlement and contacts - Colonisation
- Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - To 1900
- Law enforcement - Offences - Abduction and false imprisonment
- Law enforcement - Offences - Assault - Sexual assault and rape
- Literature and stories - Plays
- Literature and stories - Non indigenous
- Prisoners -- Australia -- Drama
- Prisoners -- Australia -- Fiction
- Squatter settlements -- Australia -- Drama
- Penal colonies -- Australia -- Drama
- Prisoners -- Australia
- Squatter settlements -- Australia
- Penal colonies -- Australia
- Squatter settlements -- Australia -- Fiction
- Penal colonies -- Australia -- Fiction
- Dharug / Darug people S64
- Australia
- New South Wales -- Hawkesbury River Region
- Hawkesbury River area (N Sydney NSW SI56-05)
- Hawkesbury River Region (N.S.W.) -- History -- Drama
- Hawkesbury River Region (N.S.W.) -- History -- Fiction
- Hawkesbury River Region (N.S.W.) -- History
- English
- Australian
- A822.4 23
- PR9619.3.B627 S42 2013
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 822.4 BOV | Available | 063698 |
"The secret river - the play adapted by Andrew Bovell from the novel by Kate Grenville." - back cover.
Convict William Thornhill, exiled from the stinking slums of early 19th century London, discovers that the penal colony offers something that he never dared to hope for before: a place of his own. A stretch of land on the Hawkesbury River is Thornhill's for the taking. As he and his family seek to establish themselves in this unfamiliar territory, they find that they are not the only ones to lay a claim to the land. The Hawkesbury is already home to a family of Dharug people, who are reluctant to leave on account of these intruders. As Thornhill's attachment to the place and the dream deepens, he is driven to make a terrible decision that will haunt him for the rest of his life.
