Born at the end of the nineteenth century into a poor farming family in rural New South Wales, Dolly Maunder spends her life pushing at the doors society keeps locked to determined women. A husband and two children never quell her search for independence and a life she can call her own. Drawing on the story of her own grandmother, Kate Grenville traces one woman’s stubborn, costly climb — from girlhood to old age — through a world of limits. Shortlisted for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction.
