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Restless Dolly Maunder
Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2024
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024 The Women's Prize-winning and Booker-shortlisted international bestselling author returns with a fictionalised account of her grandmother's life Dolly Maunder is born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society's long-locked doors are just starting to creak ajar for determined women. Growing up in a poor farming family in rural New South Wales, Dolly spends her life doggedly pushing at those doors. A husband and two children do not deter her from searching for love and independence. Restless Dolly Maunder is a subversive, triumphant tale of a pioneering woman working her way through a world of limits and obstacles, who is able - despite the cost - to make a life she could call her own.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024
The Women's Prize-winning and Booker-shortlisted international bestselling author returns with a fictionalised account of her grandmother's life
Dolly Maunder is born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society's long-locked doors are just starting to creak ajar for determined women. Growing up in a poor farming family in rural New South Wales, Dolly spends her life doggedly pushing at those doors. A husband and two children do not deter her from searching for love and independence.
Restless Dolly Maunder is a subversive, triumphant tale of a pioneering woman working her way through a world of limits and obstacles, who is able - despite the cost - to make a life she could call her own.