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Lilian's Story
Kate Grenville
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Description for Lilian's Story
Paperback. Shielded from emotional and physical abuse by layers of fat, Lilian struggles to escape a suffocating existence in the home of her tyrannical Victorian father and her elegant but ineffectual mother. This book traces the progress of her life's journey, and why she made the choices she did. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 224.
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As a child in twentieth-century Australia, Lilian Una Singer struggles to escape a suffocating existence in the home of her tyrannical Victorian father and her elegant but ineffectual mother. Madness, cruelty and sexuality permeate the family's upper crust world and influence Lilian's upbringing.
As a grown woman, Lilian has to make difficult choices if she wants to reject the idea that her story is already fixed, written by others. Will she succeed in making ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781841959955
SKU
V9781841959955
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99-99
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 Women's Prize. Grenville's other novels include Sarah Thornhill, The Lieutenant, Lilian's Story, Dark Places, Joan Makes History and A Room Made of Leaves. Her 2024 novel Restless Dolly ... Read more
Reviews for Lilian's Story
Lilian's Story . . . takes you into another world, which is rare.
Guardian
Here is someone who can really write
Peter Carey Kate Grenville has transformed an Australian myth into a dazzling fiction of universal appeal. It is a pleasure to be able to praise a true novelist.
Patrick White
Guardian
Here is someone who can really write
Peter Carey Kate Grenville has transformed an Australian myth into a dazzling fiction of universal appeal. It is a pleasure to be able to praise a true novelist.
Patrick White