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Kate Grenville

Kate Grenville is one of Australia's finest writers. Her early works have become modern classics and are admired by critics and readers around the world. Her 1992 novel, The Idea of Perfection, was a bestseller and winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction, Britain's most valuable literary award. In 2006 Kate Grenville was awarded the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the NSW Premier's Literary Award for The Secret River, and the novel was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Kate lives in Sydney with her family. Grenville's A Room Made of Leaves won the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction at the 2021 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.

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Title:

One Life: My Mother's Story

Written by:

Kate Grenville 

Read by:

Kate Grenville 

Format:

Unabridged CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

5 

Duration:

6 hours 8 minutes 

Published:

April 01 2015 

Available Date:

April 01 2015 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781486286416 

Genres:

Non-fiction; Australian; Biography; Historical 

Publisher:

ABC Audio 

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AUD$ 39.95

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International bestselling author
Award winning author
Australian author

Winner AudioFile Earphones Award 2015

One Life is an act of great imaginative sympathy, a daughter’s intimate account of the patterns in her mother’s life. It is a deeply moving homage by one of Australia’s finest writers.

Born to an unhappy marriage and into a deeply sexist society, Nance Russell worked hard for everything she had, and while the world changed around her, she went on to university, to opening businesses and raising a family. One Life is Nance’s story – and many other women’s too – beautifully captured by her daughter, the bestselling novelist Kate Grenville. Grenville draws on the tales passed down to her to create an evocative portrait of life in 20th century rural Australia, and a deeply intimate and caring homage to a mother.

'A few sentences of Grenville’s makes one realise that much of the writing one encounters in a novel these days is thin and perfunctory.'
The Daily Express

'Clear, authentic and utterly engaging . . . it is as successful as it is authentic'
The Independent

'[Grenville] is a gift of a writer.'
The Age

'What a difficult thing it must have been to write, but what a treasure [Grenville] has given us ... Evocative and fascinating, this brave and heartfelt tribute will appeal to anyone interested in their own family story, Australian history, or the lives of women.'
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