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Item code: 68366346
Author: Kate Grenville
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Hardback
Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century when societys long-locked doors were finally starting to creak ajar for women. Born into a poor farming family in country New South Wales but clever energetic and determined she spent her restless life pushing at those doors. Most women like Dolly have more or less disappeared from view remembered only in a family photo album as a remote figure in impossible clothes and maybe for a lemon-pudding recipe. Restless Dolly Maunder brings one of them to life as a person we can recognise and whose struggles we can empathise with. In this novel Kate Grenville uses family memories and research to imagine her way into the life of her grandmother. This is the story of a woman born into a world of limits and obstacles who was ablethough at a costto make a life for herself. Her battles and triumphs helped to open doors for the women who came after.
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