Secret River (Booker Shortlist)
Автор:
Grenville, Kate, 352 стр., издатель:
"Canongate", ISBN:
978-0-857-86084-2
London, 1806 - William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal, is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but bearable until William makes a mistake, a bad mistake for which he and his family are made to pay dearly. His sentence: to be transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. Soon Thornhill, a man no better or worse than most, has to make the most difficult decision of his life ...