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I enjoyed this book very much. I particularly liked the revelation of the sort of English people that ended up in Australia at the beginning of the nineteenth century and how hard their lives were and how desperate they were. They were people who had always had nothing and here was their chance to have something. And these desperate men (and some women) came face to face with this unutterably different culture - the aboriginals. I liked the way Grenville evoked the aboriginals - barely making the grass move, merging into the shadows, people who were a part of the earth they lived on, whereas the English wanted to fight nature, conquer it, grab their own little bit of it. The only thing I didn’t believe was that Will and Sal would have felt bad about killing the aboriginals - especially when they had thought they were under threat of death themselves. There's several references to Sal not wanting meet Will's eye after he has killed aboriginals. I think that‘s putting a modern cast on it. I think in realty they wouldn't have cared. That doesn’t mean they were bad. They were doing what they could to survive according to their understanding of the term.