- Fiction, History, Land tenure, Literature
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.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and bleak.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Kate Grenville
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 349
- Publisher
- Blackstone Audio inc., Canongate U.S., Blackstone Audiobooks
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781841957975
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“In the rooms where William Thornhill grew up, in the last decades of the eighteenth century, no one could move an elbow without hitting the wall or the table or a sister or a brother.”
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