Great book. A fast read but one that’s likely to stick with me for a long time. The story is about William Thornhill, born in London in 1777, and transported to New South Wales as a convict in the early nineteenth century; and in a wider sense also about the awful treatment of the aboriginal people of Australia by the settlers.

Very well written; quite weighty but also easy to read. I’ll be on the lookout for Grenville’s other books.