Lilian's Story
Author(s): Kate Grenville
This is the story of Lilian Singer, born on 'a wild night in the year of Federation' in to a stifling household which totally fails to subdue her. Madness, cruelty and sexuality permeate the household but Lilian's sights are set on education, love and - finally - her own transcendent forms of independence. Lilian Singer is that rare being: an eccentric true to her own self whose story reaches out to touch and delight every reader. Lilian's Story is the most loved of Kate Grenville's fictional creations. Lilian Singer radiates energy and vitality through every page of this striking work. 'Dazzling fiction of universal appeal' - Patrick White 'A work of considerable beauty and power ...told with great honesty and virtuosity.' - New York Times Book Review.
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Winner of Australian / Vogel Literary Award 1984.
Kate Grenville is one of Australia's finest writers. Her early works, which include Lilian's Story, Dark Places and Joan Makes History, have become modern classics and are admired by critics and readers around the world. Her 1992 novel, The Idea of Perfection, was a bestseller and winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction, Britain's most valuable literary award. In 2006 Kate Grenville was awarded the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the NSW Premier's Literary Award for The Secret River, and the novel was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award. In 2008 the companion volume, Searching for the Secret River, was published and in 2009, her most recent novel, The Lieutenant, was shortlisted for both the NSW Premier's and the Queensland Premier's Awards.
General Fields
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- : Allen & Unwin
- : Allen & Unwin
- : 0.878
- : 01 October 2010
- : 237mm X 159mm
- : Australia
- : books
Special Fields
- : Kate Grenville
- : Hardback
- : 20th birthday ed.
- : A823.914
- : 336