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Restless Dolly Maunder
Shortlisted for the 2024 Women's Prize for Fiction
By: Kate Grenville
Paperback | 30 April 2024
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An exquisite portrait of Kate Grenville's complex, conflicted grandmother-a woman Kate feared as a child, and only came to understand in adulthood.
Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society's long-locked doors were starting to creak ajar for women. Growing up in a poor farming family in country New South Wales but clever, energetic and determined, Dolly spent her restless life pushing at those doors.
Most women like her have disappeared from view, remembered only in family photo albums as remote figures in impossible clothes, or maybe for a lemon-pudding recipe handed down through the generations. Restless Dolly Maunder brings one of these women to life as someone we can recognise and whose struggles we can empathise with.
In this compelling new novel, Kate Grenville uses family memories to imagine her way into the life of her grandmother. This is the story of a woman, working her way through a world of limits and obstacles, who was able-if at a cost-to make a life she could call her own. Her battles and triumphs helped to open doors for the women who came after.
About the Author
Kate Grenville is one of Australia's most celebrated writers. Her international bestseller The Secret River was awarded local and overseas prizes, has been adapted for the stage and as an acclaimed television miniseries, and is now a much-loved classic. Grenville's other novels include Sarah Thornhill, The Lieutenant, Dark Places and the Orange Prize winner The Idea of Perfection. Her recent non-fiction includes One Life: My Mother's Story, The Case Against Fragrance and Elizabeth Macarthur's Letters. Her most recent novel is the bestselling A Room Made of Leaves. She has also written three books about the writing process. In 2017 Grenville was awarded the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature.
Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society's long-locked doors were starting to creak ajar for women. Growing up in a poor farming family in country New South Wales but clever, energetic and determined, Dolly spent her restless life pushing at those doors.
Most women like her have disappeared from view, remembered only in family photo albums as remote figures in impossible clothes, or maybe for a lemon-pudding recipe handed down through the generations. Restless Dolly Maunder brings one of these women to life as someone we can recognise and whose struggles we can empathise with.
In this compelling new novel, Kate Grenville uses family memories to imagine her way into the life of her grandmother. This is the story of a woman, working her way through a world of limits and obstacles, who was able-if at a cost-to make a life she could call her own. Her battles and triumphs helped to open doors for the women who came after.
About the Author
Kate Grenville is one of Australia's most celebrated writers. Her international bestseller The Secret River was awarded local and overseas prizes, has been adapted for the stage and as an acclaimed television miniseries, and is now a much-loved classic. Grenville's other novels include Sarah Thornhill, The Lieutenant, Dark Places and the Orange Prize winner The Idea of Perfection. Her recent non-fiction includes One Life: My Mother's Story, The Case Against Fragrance and Elizabeth Macarthur's Letters. Her most recent novel is the bestselling A Room Made of Leaves. She has also written three books about the writing process. In 2017 Grenville was awarded the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature.
Industry Reviews
'There is no doubt Grenville is one of our greatest writers.' -- Sunday Mail
'[Grenville] is a gift of a writer.' -- Age
'Nobody writes historical fiction like Kate Grenville. Again and again she has brought history-both the official records and the messy tensions in the margins-to life...Women like Dolly Maunder rarely make it into the history books. Here, she's honoured by one of our best.' * Qantas Magazine *
'Grenville uses exacting research to imagine her way into the life of another-this time a woman she once feared, and with whom she appeared to have come to some understanding.' * Guardian *
'...the writing sparkles with Grenville's gift for transcendently clear imagery...a work of history, biography, story and memoir, all fused into a novel that suggests the great potential of literary art as redeemer, healer and pathway to understanding.' * Guardian *
'Grenville's quiet and insightful prose makes this book a joy and an inspiration to read.' * Readings *
'[Grenville] is a gift of a writer.' -- Age
'Nobody writes historical fiction like Kate Grenville. Again and again she has brought history-both the official records and the messy tensions in the margins-to life...Women like Dolly Maunder rarely make it into the history books. Here, she's honoured by one of our best.' * Qantas Magazine *
'Grenville uses exacting research to imagine her way into the life of another-this time a woman she once feared, and with whom she appeared to have come to some understanding.' * Guardian *
'...the writing sparkles with Grenville's gift for transcendently clear imagery...a work of history, biography, story and memoir, all fused into a novel that suggests the great potential of literary art as redeemer, healer and pathway to understanding.' * Guardian *
'Grenville's quiet and insightful prose makes this book a joy and an inspiration to read.' * Readings *
ISBN: 9781922790651
ISBN-10: 1922790656
Published: 30th April 2024
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 304
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.4 x 1.9
Weight (kg): 0.32
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