Books by Kate Grenville (3)


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Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
Description:
Dolly Maunder is born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society's long-locked doors are just starting to creak ajar for determined women. Growing up in a poor farming family in rural New South Wales, Dolly spends her life doggedly pushing at those doors. A husband and two children do not deter her from searching for love and independence. Restless Dolly Maunder is a subversive, triumphant tale of a pioneering woman working her way through a world of limits and obstacles, who is able - despite the cost - to make a life she could call her own.

2.

Searching for the Secret River by Kate Grenville EN

Rating: 2 (1 vote)
Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
Description:
Kate Grenville describes her quest to find her convict ancestor, and to understand his life.

3.

The Secret River by Kate Grenville EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
Description:
'Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize and Australian Book Industry Awards, Book of the Year. After a childhood of poverty and petty crime in the slums of London, William Thornhill is transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. With his wife Sal and children in tow, he arrives in a harsh land that feels at first like a de...