Book
Wanting
Richard Flanagan
Jonathan Cape
Fiction
Taking the story of John Franklin, governor of Tasmania and explorer of the North West Passage and his determined wife Jane as the connecting point, Flanagan weaves together a richly imagined novel of Mathinna, young Tasmanian Aboriginal girl and Charles Dickens as he prepares to leave his wife and risk his good name to follow his passion. The Franklins adopt Mathinna, seen as the last of a dying race, as an experiment and then abandon her when they believe that savagery has won over civilisation . Franklin goes on disappear into the North West Passage and Dickens becomes involved in a play inspired by Franklin s fate. Flanagan s latest novel explores the idea that life is determined by wanting rather than reason.
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