The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville

The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville

A story of unlikely friendship, a voyage across oceans and a journey towards understanding from the Booker Prize-shortlisted and Women Prize-winning Australian novelist Kate Grenville

A triumphRead it at once * * The Times * *
In lucid prose and perfectly measured strides, Grenville lays down her riveting tale. A novel aglow with empathy, its author's capacious visions still deliver an elemental thrill * * Daily Mail * *
A beautifully uplifting piece of fiction * * Independent * *
An original, inviting tale * * Daily Telegraph * *
Genuinely affecting * * Financial Times * *
Grenville's prose is clear and clean, employing a gently leading storytelling style that is especially welcome with a foreign land and a foreign time . . . Grenville has brought imagination and compassion to the source of so much of Australia's retroactive hand-wringing. What distinguishes her portrayal of Aboriginal culture is that for once appreciation, sympathy and admiration get the better of impotent guilt -- Lionel Shriver * * Daily Telegraph * *
Grenville inhabits characters with a rare completeness . . . writes with a poet's sense of rhythm and imagery . . . [and] explores the natural rifts that arise between settlers and native people with a deep understanding of the ambiguities inherent in such conflicts -- Jay Parini * * Guardian * *
A deft historical tale of discovery . . . [Dawes'] qualities shine lambently through Grenville's elegantly calibrated prose . . . The lasting impression of her novel is not of drama, but of a lovely, watchful stillness: a sort of astronomy of the human heart * * Sunday Telegraph * *
A compelling narrative . . . An intelligent, spare, always engrossing imagining of first contact, in which the fictionalisation of history allows a comment about current postcolonial race relationships which escapes the didacticism of special pleading * * Times Literary Supplement * *
In this novel, morally troubling issues of exploitation and hypocrisy carry reverberations well beyond the convincingly portrayed historical moment * * Sunday Telegraph * *

Kate Grenville's 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 Women's Prize. Grenville's other novels include Sarah Thornhill, The Lieutenant, Lilian's Story, Dark Places, Joan Makes History and A Room Made of Leaves. Her 2024 novel Restless Dolly Maunder was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction.

kategrenville.com

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781786896025
ISBN 10	1786896028
Title	The Lieutenant
Author	Kate Grenville
Series	Canons
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Canongate Books
Year published	2019-09-05
Number of pages	320
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.