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Kate Grenville is one of Australia’s most celebrated writers. Her international bestseller The Secret River was awarded local and overseas prizes, has been adapted for the stage and as an acclaimed television miniseries, and is now a much-loved classic. Grenville’s other novels include Sarah Thornhill, The Lieutenant, Dark Places and the Orange Prize winner The Idea of Perfection. Her recent non-fiction includes One Life: My Mother’s Story, The Case Against Fragrance and Elizabeth Macarthur’s Letters. Her most recent novel is the bestselling A Room Made of Leaves. She has also written three books about the writing process. In 2017 Grenville was awarded the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature.

Her new book Restless Dolly Maunder is an exquisite portrait of Kate Grenville's complex, conflicted grandmother-a woman Kate feared as a child, and only came to understand in adulthood. Dolly, born into a poor farming family in country New South Wales but clever, energetic and determined, spent her restless life pushing at at  nineteenth century  society's long-locked doors that were finally starting to creak ajar for women. 

Venue Edendale Community Farm Gastons Lane Eltham 

6:30-8:00pm Tuesday 19 September 2023

The entry charge  includes a copy of the book