Restless Dolly Maunder
Kate Grenville
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.
‘There is no doubt Grenville is one of our greatest writers.’
‘Family memoir and reimagined history dovetail beautifully in Restless Dolly Maunder.’
A powerful novel about a woman determined to rise above her station…It feels like a privilege to share in Grenville’s indomitable grandmother’s journey.‘
- Release
- Jul-2023
- ISBN
- 9781922790651
- RRP (AUD)
- $34.99
- Pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback & ebook
- Category
- Fiction
Kate Grenville
Kate Grenville
Text Publishing
Text Publishing is an independent, Melbourne-based publisher of literary and commercial fiction and non-fiction. Text has been awarded the ABIA Small Publisher of the Year three times and won the Leading Edge Books Small Publisher of the Year in 2018 and 2019.
- Rights
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World
- Rights Sold
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Italy; World English (excl ANZ)
- Contact
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Anne Beilby
- Website