Always Greener - Kate Grenville Audiobook

Written by Kate Grenville
Read by Kate Grenville
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Always Greener
The true story behind Restless Dolly Maunder
By: Kate Grenville
Narrated by: Kate Grenville
Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 13-07-2021
Language: English
Publisher: Audible Originals

‘If there’d been a gun in her hand at that moment she knew she’d have shot them…. She’d been so pleased with little Dolly Russell, the good life she’d got for them all. Thought she had it made, had got her hands at last on the levers of her life…. Now it turned out that all that, being so pleased with herself, was no more real than a puff of smoke.’

Always Greener is an exquisite portrait of Kate Grenville’s complex, conflicted grandmother, who she feared as a child and only in adulthood came to understand. Born in rural Australia, Dolly Russell becomes a successful businessperson, mother and troubled wife. Then came the depression, bankruptcy and World War I. Yet, in a way, those disasters freed her. They allowed her to use her intelligence and ambition to make a space for herself in a man’s world.

With all the pathos and subtlety that defined Grenville’s Australian classics such as Lilian’s Story and her Booker-shortlisted The Secret River, Always Greener tells the story of a generation of women often forgotten at our own cost.

©2021 Kate Grenville (P)2021 Audible Australia Pty Ltd.