Wanting

Richard Flanagan

first published 2008 Atlantic, 2009 256 pages

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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Wanting edition · 2018 · Penguin Random House · 272 pages · 9780143790792
Desig paperback · 2017 · Raig Verd Editorial · 256 pages · 9788416689354
Wanting edition · 2016 · Penguin Random House · 9781473524286
Wanting edition · 2016 · Penguin Random House · 9781784702922
Wanting edition · 2012 · Atlantic Books, Limited · 300 pages · 9780857899125
Wanting edition · 2012 · Random House Australia · 9781742755120
Begehren paperback · 2011 · Insel Verlag GmbH · 9783458357124
Wanting edition · 2010 · Atlantic · 252 pages · 9781848870772
Wanting edition · 2010 · Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated · 9780802199973
Wanting audiobook · 2010 · Bolinda Audio · 9781742141534
Wanting edition · 2009 · Vintage · 9781741666687
Wanting edition · 2009 · Atlantic · 256 pages · 9781848870710

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