Always Greener
The true story behind Restless Dolly Maunder
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Always Greener
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Kate Grenville
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Kate Grenville
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'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.What listeners say about Always Greener
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- Anonymous User
- 24-07-2021
I really connected with this book
Terrific insight into white women’s lives in the era my own grandmother lived, late 1800s to early 1900s. My grandmother married a farmer and was also really determined to ensure her daughters were educated so they would benefit from the opportunities that would (and did) bring. I today also benefit from her hard work and reading this book made me even more grateful!
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- Anonymon
- 26-08-2021
Poignant
Kate is a true story teller, and has a wonderful voice to tell them.
So much fascinating history in a short book. Thanks Kate.
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- lynn
- 22-09-2021
Lest we forget
An important glimpse into a different world to the one we women take for granted now. I found it deeply moving.
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- Loz
- 21-09-2021
Interesting listen
This was a free download and I found it very interesting and engaging to listen to while going on my daily walks. Thankyou
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- Marlene
- 30-11-2021
Great Story to Listen to
I loved listening to Kate read this story. My only regret is that it wasn't longer!
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- Anonymous User
- 04-08-2023
Kate Grenville never disappoints
I just love the way the author weaves the truth with imagination. And all the more special given it is based on her own grandmother’s possible life.
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- Carol
- 13-10-2023
Interesting and heartfelt
Thoroughly honest and enthralling look at early times in Australia in 20th century. Vivid in all it’s human colour.
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- Jaime
- 07-10-2023
It should've been longer
I really enjoyed this, I felt for Dolly when I didn't expect to. It should have been twice as long, though.
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- Anonymous User
- 20-06-2023
Yes!
Well done Kate. That was insightful, heartfelt, creative, kind and loving. A great window into our mothers’ mothers’ time. Thankyou
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- Anonymous User
- 17-09-2021
Could really do without the sound effects. They were distracting and unnecessary, did nothing to enhance the story.
A very touching story and well told.Could really do without the sound effects, they were distracting and unnecessary.
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