Searching for the Secret RiverThe Secret River, a novel by Kate Grenville, moved and exhilarated many people when it was first published in 2005. Readers marvelled at the subtlety of its language and the power of Grenville's storytelling. They recognised that this simple tale of a poor convict family settling on the banks of the Hawkesbury River in the early nineteenth century represented a landmark moment in Australian fiction. Grenville had taken the novel to the frontier of