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Restless Dolly Maunder

By: Kate Grenville
Narrated by: Federay Holmes
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024
A DAILY MAIL NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2023
LONGLISTED FOR BEST FICTION IN THE INDIE BOOK AWARDS AUSTRALIA 2024

Born into the sweat and drudgery of a New South Wales sheep farm at the end of the 19th century, Dolly Maunder is different to her siblings. She will not endure the small, servile existence of a wife. Dolly, bright, ambitious and stubborn, dreams of a different fate, of building something that she truly owns.

She will do whatever it takes to be the woman she deserves to be. Even with a husband and children, Dolly pushes the boundaries of what is ‘proper’ and what a wife and mother ought to do, as war spreads across Europe and the rules are forever changed. But every life has its limits. What happens when Dolly’s wanderlust finally risks taking her too far?The non-fiction version of Dolly's story is also available on Audible: Always Greener: The Restless Life of Dolly Russell here.©2024 Kate Grenville (P)2024 Canongate Books Ltd Biographical Fiction Genre Fiction Small Town & Rural

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'Vivid and memorable . . . [Kate Grenville] offers us the ambivalence and complex textures of experience without losing the rhythm and pace of realist fiction' (SARAH MOSS)

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Women often long for the freedoms enjoyed by men, sometimes they dress and go about their days as men. Women like Dolly push and bully their way to the places they dream of. Sometimes strength and determination are not enough, until suffage and the vote were granted us. My grandmother fought for this and by all accounts born some 20 years after Dolly was still made to leave her paid position when she married. I have inherited from these formable women and I thank them for having gone before. I am and will always be grateful.

Longing

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An insight into the lack of choice for women born in those terrible times.
Makes one feel very fortunate to have the freedoms we have today.
In many ways a very sad life indeed for poor Dolly.

Hardship of the female born of the 1800s

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