Wanting

Richard Flanagan

RRP: £14.99

Publisher: ATLANTIC BOOKS

Publication Date : 01/09/2009

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

In 1844, a young aboriginal girl in the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land takes part in an experiment in civilisation. A quarter of a century later, Sir John Franklin, his ships and his crew have been lost in an attempt to find the Northwest Passage, an event Charles Dickens becomes interested in. Several lives become intertwined by the unexpected events and ensuing tragedies.

Publisher's description:

Presents a meditation on the ways in which desire - and its denial - shape our lives.

ISBN: 9781848870710