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One Life : My Mother's Story by Kate Grenville is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is One Life : My Mother's Story about?

When Kate Grenville's mother died she left behind many fragments of memoir. These were the starting point for One Life , the story of a woman whose life spanned a century of tumult and change. In many ways Nance's story echoes that of many mothers and grandmothers, for whom the spectacular shifts of the twentieth century offered a path to new freedoms and choices. In other ways Nance was exceptional. In an era when women were expected to have no ambitions beyond the domestic, she ran successful businesses as a registered pharmacist, laid the bricks for the family home, and discovered her husband's secret life as a revolutionary. One Life is an act of great imaginative sympathy, a daughter's intimate account of the patterns in her mother's life. It is a deeply moving homage by one of Australia's finest writers. Kate Grenville is one of Australia's most celebrated writers. Her bestselling novel The Secret River received the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award. The Idea of Perfection won the Orange Prize. Grenville's other novels include Sarah Thornhill , The Lieutenant , Lilian's Story , Dark Place

Who reads One Life : My Mother's Story?

Author

Kate Grenville

Publisher

The Text Publishing Company

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781922182050

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, Fiction, Peoples & Cultures Biography

Rating

3.97 / 5 (509 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14