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2	''The Secret River'' by Kate Grenville is a historical novel set mostly in Victorian Australia, following the life of William Thornhill, a desperately poor man who stole to survive and was eventually convicted, deported and became a settler at British colony of New South Wales (Sydney).
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4	The novel focuses on the effect of colonialism on Australian native people (Aborigines) and how the conflict between the settlers and the natives came about.
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6	!!This book provides examples of:
7	%%* CrapsackWorld: Thornhill's world never stays happy for long.
8	%%* CycleOfRevenge
9	%%* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Thornhill]], depending on what you think of him to start with.
10	* {{Foil}}: Blackwood becomes a heroic foil to Thornhill.
11	%%* {{Foreshadowing}}: The book's full of it.
12	* HeelRealisation: A halfway one. [[spoiler: Thornhill]] realizes that what he is doing is evil, but in the same paragraph says he is "not an evil man".
13	* ObviouslyEvil: When we are introduced to Smasher Sullivan, he is standing by the body of a man he killed for stealing a cob of his corn.
14	* PurpleProse: {{Parodied}} with the letter to Lord Hawkesbury and with Loveday. Played straight a lot.
15	* SettlingTheFrontier: With an emphasis on how the settlers interacted with the native population.
16	%%* VillainProtagonist: Thornhill [[spoiler: by the end]].

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