RESTLESS DOLLY MAUNDER : Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2024

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ISBN: 9781922790651
Title: RESTLESS DOLLY MAUNDER : Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024
Author: GRENVILLE KATE
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

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.

Imprint: Penguin Books
RRP: $34.99