Sarah Thornhill

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. ==Notes==

Belinda McKeon in The Guardian noted: "It is with often marvellous vividness and clarity that Grenville evokes Sarah's world, from childhood on the Hawkesbury, through an adolescence of idealistic love, to a marriage towards which she goes with a resigned heart but of which she ultimately makes a fine hand." Delia Falconer in The Monthly found that "Like its predecessors, Sarah Thornhill will be welcomed by many readers as just the story we need now; others may prefer a less comforting, more ambiguous version of the past." ==Awards and nominations==

• 2012 winner Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Australian General Fiction Book of the Year • 2012 longlisted Miles Franklin Award • 2012 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Christina Stead Prize for Fiction • 2012 shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards — Fiction • 2012 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards — Fiction Book Award • 2013 longlisted International Dublin Literary Award ==See also==