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Searching for the Secret river: a writing memoir by Grenville, Kate, 1950- is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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Searching for the Secret River is a memoir about the writing of Kate Grenville's international bestseller, The Secret River. It tells the story of the research behind the novel - from the transcript of Grenville's ancestor's trial at the Old Bailey in 1805, to the information that contemporary historians are uncovering about what happened on the Australian frontier. It also takes the reader through the process of turning that research into living fiction - the false starts, dead ends and failures as well as the strokes of luck, flashes of inspiration and surprises. It contains sections of personal memoir, the record of the research, and a journal of the evolution of the book from non-fiction to novel. It quotes sections of early drafts and compares them with the final version, and goes into some detail about technical issues such as point of view, voice and dialogue. For anyone interested in the writing process - and in particular the writing of a historical novel - Searching for the Secret River provides a unique behind-the-scenes exploration. The Secret River has proved to be a controversial book among Australian historians. They feel that fiction is an untrustworthy mechanis

Who reads Searching for the Secret river: a writing memoir?

Author

Grenville, Kate, 1950-

Publisher

Harper Perennial; HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780002007115

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Memoir, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.96 / 5 (310 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13