Wanting
2008FictionAboriginal AustraliansIndigenous womenAboriginal Australian ChildrenAboriginal Tasmanians
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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.
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FictionAboriginal AustraliansIndigenous womenAboriginal Australian ChildrenAboriginal TasmaniansNew York Times reviewed
First published 2008Characters & people
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TasmaniaAustralia
About the author
Richard Flanagan
1961
Born in Tasmania in 1961, Richard Flanagan is one of Australia’s leading novelists. His novels, *Death of a River Guide, The Sound of One Hand Clapping, Gould's Book of Fish* (winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize), *The Unknown Terrorist* and *Wanting* have received numerous honours and been published in 26 countries. His father, who died the day Flanagan finished *The Narrow Road to the Deep North,* was a survivor of the Burma Death Railway. ([Source)](http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/editions/the-narrow-road-to-the-deep-north/9780701189051)
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