{"product_id":"9780006395386","title":"The Secret River","description":"\u003cp\u003eA life of petty crime and poverty on the streets of 19th-century London sentences William Thornhill—along with his wife and children—to exile in the colonial outpost of Australia. But among the convicts of New South Wales there is a whisper of the possibility of freedom, away from Sydney and up the Hawkesbury River, for those who dare to stake a claim.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a richly layered epic that recalls such international modern classics as\u003cem\u003e The True History of the Kelly Gang\u003c\/em\u003e, Kate Grenville tells the heart- renching story of a family in exile. Sweeping across the 19th century, from the teeming banks of the Thames in London to the hardscrabble frontier settlement of Sydney, Australia, \u003cem\u003eThe Secret River \u003c\/em\u003esets us down in an unforgiving land and masterfully confronts us with the brutal price of colonization.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kate Grenville","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":47899345420509,"sku":"9780006395386","price":7.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/6860\/1821\/files\/BNCImageAPI_167da1d2-54bb-46ac-9c9d-fdc3455fa5a5.jpg?v=1778260892","url":"https:\/\/thenextchaptergp.com\/products\/9780006395386","provider":"The Next Chapter  -  Books, Puzzles and Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}