THE GRANT
A Novel of Colonial Australia, 1830–1884
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THE GRANT
In 1830, William Moore sails from Ireland to the Swan River Colony with a land grant, four servants, a dog, and seeds wrapped in canvas. He is given five hundred acres of ground already inhabited for forty thousand years.
What follows is a fifty-four-year reckoning.
Told through the spare, precise entries of Moore's journal, The Grant traces one man's attempt to farm, govern, and bear honest witness to a colony built on a foundation the law cannot name and will not see. He learns the Noongar language. He watches a burial across the river. He stands between fires on both sides of questions English law was not built to answer. He writes everything down.
A novel of colonial Australia in the tradition of Kate Grenville's The Secret River and Patrick White's Voss, The Grant asks what it costs to be a decent man inside an indecent system — and whether the record of that cost is the same thing as atonement.
It is not.
William Ferrier Jr. is the author of The Long Walk West, The Long Walk North, and other works of literary historical fiction.