One Life: My Mother's Story, by Kate Grenville
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One Life: My Mother's Story, by Kate Grenville
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'Clear, authentic and utterly engaging . . . it is as successful as it is authentic' Independent on SundayBorn to an unhappy marriage and into a deeply sexist society, Nance Russell worked hard for everything she had, and while the world changed around her, she went on to university, to opening businesses and raising a family. One Life is Nance's story - and many other women's too - beautifully captured by her daughter, the bestselling novelist Kate Grenville. Kate draws on the tales passed down to her to create an evocative portrait of life in twentieth-century rural Australia, and a deeply intimate and caring homage to a mother.
One Life: My Mother's Story, by Kate Grenville- Amazon Sales Rank: #352807 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-05-07
- Released on: 2015-05-07
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review "Written in the third-person, blending her mother's plain, brisk language and her own novelistic skills . . . moving . . . Grenville's feminist instincts, which run quietly through her life and writing, built on her mother's example." —Sydney Morning Herald"A work of imaginative sympathy, it is as successful as it is audacious . . . Clear, authentic and utterly engaging . . . Provides a microcosm for the changes taking place on the world stage in the period spanned." —Independent on Sunday
About the Author Kate Grenville's 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 Places, and Joan Makes History.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. a brilliant read By Cloggie Downunder “It was different for Nance. She wasn’t dependent on a man. In fact, she thought that might be part of the problem. She’d been running her own life for so long, she was used to shaping things as she wanted…….She was like those girls who learned to dance with other girls, taking turns to be the man. They never got the hang of following, once they knew what it was like to lead.”One Life is a biography of Nance Isobel Gee, written by her daughter, popular Australian author, Kate Grenville. Nance was born in 1912. Against the odds for a woman of her humble background, Nance attended Sydney University, became a registered pharmacist and owned her own pharmacy. But this simplistic summation of her life is completely inadequate, for Nance did much, much more with her life. As Grenville relates the incidents and events that punctuated Nance’s life, she takes the reader back to another era, one on the cusp of major change. Schooling, work, war, sexual discrimination, motherhood, political affiliations and even building a house feature in this interesting and entertaining memoir: “Why shouldn’t a woman lay bricks? The world would never change if someone wasn’t prepared to be the first.”While this may be a memoir, Grenville still manages to treat the reader to some wonderfully evocative prose: “They woke to a day so hot and still the air was like something solid. All morning a cloud gathered on the horizon and by afternoon it filled the sky, dark with a dangerous green underbelly like a bruise. Then one great blast of wind, and the hail starting all at once, like someone spilling peas out of a colander” is just one example. Many of the images on the twenty-four pages of photographs will strike a chord with readers of a certain vintage, who may well have similar photographs of their own family.Grenville explains: “Her story is unusual in some ways, but in other ways it’s the archetypal twentieth-century story of the coming of a new world of choices and self-determination” Those who knew her have described Nance Gee as a remarkable woman: this is a description which Grenville’s biography proves is certainly very apt. Once again, Grenville treats her readers to a brilliant read.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Historical novel rather than biography By Amazon Customer I found this 'biography' rather annoying. Kate says in the introduction that she found notes her mother had made but we do not know which is her mother's story and which is Kate's. There is so much material that is obviously imagined and made up by Kate that it cannot be considered a biography. She is a fiction writer of note and she can draw wonderful word pictures of situations, which she clearly did in this book. She has also done research on what was happening around the times her mother and family were living. However, as a result of her 'madeup' scenarios and the inclusion of historical data, this book reads rather more like an historical fiction novel than a biography. Also, there seems to be a clear bias against the grandmother, Dolly, who gets some consistently nasty treatment from Kate. Kate seems to have obviously loved her mother but absorbed the angst her mother hand for her mother (Kate's grandmother) and the result is a rather lopsided book, predictable in its biases. Didn't enjoy it, was rather annoyed by it as I had been expecting something better.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. This was a wonderful book made more wonderful because it is a true ... By Winniewall This was a wonderful book made more wonderful because it is a true story. Kate Grenville's story of her mother's life is a chance for us to get a glimpse of what life was like for young wives and mothers during the 1930's and 1940's. Obviously her mother was an extraordinary lady for her time and someone to be admired..
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