Restless Dolly Maunder
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By Kate Grenville
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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.
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What a great character Dolly is! And she's definitely restless. She was born at the end of the 19th century and although the book highlights many of the issues faced by women at the time and into the 1940's it is done with a very light touch. As restless Dolly charges through her life, always looking for greener grass, the reader, like her family, just has to keep,up. I thoroughly enjoyed every venture and adventure she was part of and if some of them seemed a little unbelievable I just had to remind myself that it is, in fact, the story of Kate Grenville's grandmother. An excellent and very readable book.
