After a childhood of poverty and petty crime in the slums of London, William Thomhill is sentenced in 1806 to be transported to New South Wales for the terms of his natural life. With his wife Sal and children to tow, he arrives in a harsh land that feels at first like a death sentence. But his first glimpse of land for the taking awakens in him a desire he never had before: to own that land, no matter the cost to his soul. From the winner of the 2001 Orange Prize
My first HF that takes place in Australia, the first book in a trilogy and my first book by Kate Grenville.
The author has a really nice way of describing the outback, I could visualize the country, the Aborigines and even the little hunts with the bark flaps. This is one of those books that stays with you even when finished. The story was centered around William, but I think I would have liked to have gotten to know Sal's thoughts and feelings, especially towards the end. The ending was a little predictable, but that's ok. I look forward to reading the next one.
I do have one con for this book, not the writing but the ebook format. I read this on my Kobo (it was cheap and I had a coupon code - what can I say I am cheap). It's been a while since I have been in school, but this book had no quotation marks, not one, in the whole book. For the dialogue everything was in italics. Is that something new? Very confusing, I usually take italics to mean a thought or something unspoken, this was the opposite. Once I figured that out I was good to go, though I did regressed a few times.
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