Kate Grenville

Kate Grenville’s bestselling novel The Secret River received the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award. The Idea of Perfection won the Orange Prize. Grenville’s other novels include Sarah Thornhill, The Lieutenant, Lilian’s Story, Dark Places and Joan Makes History.

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Kate Grenville’s Restless Dolly Maunder Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction

Kate Grenville’s official website

Kate Grenville’s website has information on all of her books – from her very first (the short story collection Bearded Ladies) to this year’s A Room Made of Leaves – as well as essays available to read now.

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“Even that word, the, the least regarded word in the language, strikes me as absurd. How can there be the history? Beyond one the, watertight and trim, lies another, just as watertight, just as trim.”

A Room Made of Leaves

“Exquisitely written, this is no hurtful exercise in family exposure, but a tender reconstruction of a woman’s exemplary life”

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Ian Thomson

The Independent

Kate Grenville introduces One Life

“There was hardly a door, barely a wall: only a flap of bark, a screen of sticks and mud. There was no need of lock, of door, of wall: this was a prison whose bars were ten thousand miles of water”

The Secret River

Kate Grenville

“I thought about flying, stood sometimes on the edge of the rock and wondered. But much as I’d of liked to, and young as I was, I had the sense to know I’d have to wait for some other way to fly”

Sarah Thornhill

Kate Grenville

“She was like those girls who learned to dance with other girls, taking turns to be the man. They never got the hang of following, once they knew what it was like to lead”

One Life

Kate Grenville

“There was no need of lock, of door, of wall: this was a prison whose bars were ten thousand miles of water.”

The Secret River and Searching for The Secret River

Kate Grenville