Lilian's Story by Kate Grenville

Lilian's Story by Kate Grenville

Shielded from emotional and physical abuse by layers of fat, Lilian struggles to escape a suffocating existence in the home of her tyrannical Victorian father and her elegant but ineffectual mother. Madness, cruelty and sexuality permeate the family's upper-crust Australian world.

Lilian Una Singer starts life at the beginning of the twentieth century as the daughter of a prosperous middle-class Australian family. She ends it as a cheerfully eccentric bag-lady living on the streets, quoting Shakespeare. This book traces the progress of her life's journey, and why she made the choices she did. She's a person large in spirit as well as body, who wants to invent her own story, rather than allow it to be invented for her. Life presents her with many obstacles including the sinister advances of her father - but in spite of this she succeeds. Triumphantly she makes her life her own, savouring every moment with the reminder that 'everything matters'.

Kate Grenville is one of Australia's most celebrated writers. Her international bestseller The Secret River is a much-loved classic. It has received local and overseas prizes and has been adapted for TV and the stage. The Secret River was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and was described as a masterwork by Chicago Tribune. Grenville's other novels include Sarah Thornhill, The Lieutenant, Dark Places and the Orange Prize winner The Idea of Perfection. Her most recent books are two works of non-fiction, including The Case Against Fragrance. In 2017 she was awarded the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. She lives in Melbourne.

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ISBN 13	9780670809295
ISBN 10	0670809292
Title	Lilian's Story
Author	Kate Grenville
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	1986-09-04
Number of pages	240
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