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Wanting (2008)

Wanting (2008)

Children Historical Fiction Literary Fiction

Richard Flanagan

Year: 2008
Authors: Richard Flanagan
Print type: BOOK

Description:

Assuming the governorship of the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land, Sir John Franklin and his wife adopt a young Aboriginal girl, Mathinna, and ten years later after Franklin and his crew disappear in the Arctic, Charles Dickens takes an interest in the story, which has a profound effect on his own life.