One Life
My Mother's Life
by Kate Grenville
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Pub Date 7 May 2015 | Archive Date 8 Jun 2015
Canongate Books | Canongate UK
Description
In this vivid, intimate, narrative memoir bestselling and award-winning novelist Kate Grenville celebrates her mother's life.
One Life is the story of Nance Russell, whose life spanned a century of tumult and change. In an act of great imaginative sympathy, her daughter Kate Grenville has drawn on the fragments of memoir Nance left, to create an intimate account of the patterns in her mother's life.
In many ways Nance's story echoes that of many mothers and grandmothers, for whom the spectacular shifts of the twentieth century offered a path to new freedoms and choices. In other ways Nance was exceptional. In an era when women were expected to have no ambitions beyond the domestic, she ran successful businesses as a registered pharmacist, laid the bricks for the family home, and discovered her husband's secret life as a revolutionary.
One Life is a deeply moving homage by one of Australia's finest writers.
One Life is the story of Nance Russell, whose life spanned a century of tumult and change. In an act of great imaginative sympathy, her daughter Kate Grenville has drawn on the fragments of memoir Nance left, to create an intimate account of the patterns in her mother's life.
In many ways Nance's story echoes that of many mothers and grandmothers, for whom the spectacular shifts of the twentieth century offered a path to new freedoms and choices. In other ways Nance was exceptional. In an era when women were expected to have no ambitions beyond the domestic, she ran successful businesses as a registered pharmacist, laid the bricks for the family home, and discovered her husband's secret life as a revolutionary.
One Life is a deeply moving homage by one of Australia's finest writers.
Advance Praise
'Kate Grenville is one of Australia's finest writers . . . her great
skill as a writer is to take the barest of biographical details and spin
them into something of intricate moral complexity' Telegraph
'Grenville inhabits characters with a rare completeness . . . She writes with a poet's sense of rhythm and imagery' Guardian
'The power with which Kate Grenville evokes places and people is so remarkable' Diana Athill
'Grenville inhabits characters with a rare completeness . . . She writes with a poet's sense of rhythm and imagery' Guardian
'The power with which Kate Grenville evokes places and people is so remarkable' Diana Athill
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781782116851 |
| PRICE | £14.99 (GBP) |
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