First published 2011
Convicts, prospectors, and settlers carve a new society from Australia's unforgiving wilderness. Through vivid portraits of diverse lives, Keneally illuminates the epic forces that forged a nation—the impact of European colonization, the search for identity in a divided land, and a reckoning with a fraught past. At its heart, this sweeping chronicle captures how a remote penal colony grew into a thriving, multicultural democracy.
Genres: historical, historical-fiction, australia, 20th-century, 21st-century, 19th-century
Vibes: atmospheric, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: diverse-perspectives, epic
Setting: Australia
Period: 19th-century, 20th-century, 21st-century
992 pages · Hardcover · Allen & Unwin