Sarah Thornhill

Sarah Thornhill (2011) is a novel by Australian author Kate Grenville. It is the sequel to the author's 2005 novel The Secret River. It won the 2012 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Australian General Fiction Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for the 2012 Prime Minister's Literary Awards. Plot summary Sarah Thornhill is the last child born to William and Sal Thornhill, whose struggle to establish a new life in Australia was told in the author's novel The Secret River. Sarah's mother is now dead and her father has re-married, who attempts to conceal and overcome her husband's convict past. But Sarah has a will of her own and falls in love with Jack Langland, a "half darkie", the product of a white father and an Aboriginal mother.