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One Life
Kate Grenville
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Description for One Life
Paperback. This vivid, intimate, narrative memoir celebrates the life of best-selling and award-winning novelist Kate Grenville's mother. Now a gorgeous paperback Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: BM; VFV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
'Clear, authentic and utterly engaging . . . it is as successful as it is authentic' Independent on Sunday 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. Kate draws on the tales passed down to her to create an evocative portrait of life in twentieth-century ... Read more
'Clear, authentic and utterly engaging . . . it is as successful as it is authentic' Independent on Sunday 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. Kate draws on the tales passed down to her to create an evocative portrait of life in twentieth-century ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782116875
SKU
V9781782116875
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-35
About 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. www.kategrenville.com
Reviews for One Life
Wonderful
Independent
A work of imaginative sympathy, it is as successful as it is audacious . . . Clear, authentic and utterly engaging . . . A microcosm for the changes taking place on the world stage in the period spanned
Independent on Sunday
Kate Grenville is one ... Read more
Independent
A work of imaginative sympathy, it is as successful as it is audacious . . . Clear, authentic and utterly engaging . . . A microcosm for the changes taking place on the world stage in the period spanned
Independent on Sunday
Kate Grenville is one ... Read more