{"product_id":"9781460750506_thicker-than-water","title":"Thicker Than Water","description":"A compelling and beautifully written memoir about dark and shameful family secrets, and one young woman's pilgrimage to Australia to attempt to lay the past to rest. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003eBritish journalist Cal Flyn was holidaying in her childhood home in the Highlands of Scotland, when she stumbled upon a dark family secret.  To her horror, she discovered that her great-great-great uncle Angus McMillan, who had been mythologized as a great explorer and pioneer of early Australia, was in fact also the leader of a number of gruesome massacres of indigenous people. In 1843, he led a loosely formed 'Highland brigade', linked to a series of assaults so ferocious that the sites would ever after be synonymous with bloodshed: Butchers Creek, Boney Point, Skull Creek, Slaughterhouse Gully. \u003c?xml:namespace prefix = o \/?\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003eDriven to piece together his story and to confront her own history, Cal decided to retrace McMillan's journey to Australia, looking for answers: how could a man lauded for his generosity and integrity commit such terrible acts?  How could people who directly suffered from the brutal expulsion of the Highland Clearances re-enact this brutality in Australia? And has today's generation inherited a responsibility to atone for its ancestors' sins?  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003ePart family memoir, part travelogue, part history, and an intimate, revealing and fascinating journey into our Australian heritage, \u003ci\u003eThicker than Water\u003c\/i\u003e is a beautifully written, wholly compelling and devastatingly clear-eyed examination of the burden of intergenerational grief and inherited guilt that we all carry with us.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cal Flyn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46896435658901,"sku":"9781460750506","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9781460750506_36920bfe-12f4-47c3-b40d-bb718678f4f0.jpg?v=1776888408","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9781460750506_thicker-than-water","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}