WANTING

In nineteenth-century Van Diemen's Land, an Aboriginal girl named Mathinna is taken in by explorer Sir John Franklin and his wife Lady Jane, who believe education will transform her. When Franklin perishes during an Arctic expedition amid whispered horrors of his crew's survival, Lady Jane turns to Charles Dickens to salvage her husband's legacy. Richard Flanagan's Man Booker Prize-winning novel traces the collision between empire, enlightenment, and the untold stories buried beneath history's official accounts.