Funny and sometimes piercingly poignant, Grenville offers an unblinking and unsentimental view of life's underside her book is an often poetic treasure. Kate Grenville is an award-winning novelist with a distinctively. Australian writer Grenvilles second novel, Lilians Story, told of an obese, disturbed young woman who was raped by her father, then committed to a mental institution.

Joan Makes History was first published in 1988 and was funded by the Australian Bicentennial Authority to celebrate 200 years of history.

Chapters from Joan's own life are interspersed with imagined moments in Australian history in which Joan plays a role: as Captain Cook's proud wife in the discovery of the continent, as a female convict first to set foot in Botany Bay, as an Aboriginal woman, as dozens of unsung, hardworking and invisible women who toiled skeptically alongside the men who starred in, and wrote, the history books. Joan is a woman of no great distinction, but in the life of her imagination she is in the front line of events, cheerfully altering history. Joan Makes History:. Joan is a woman of no great distinction, but in the life of her imagination she is in the front line of events, cheerfully altering history. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Joan Makes History Kate Grenville 9.99 Publisher Description In this rollicking, irreverent tour de force, Kate Grenville rewrites the familiar past. Male readers need not cringe, however: Joan (who appeared briefly in Lillian's Story ) may be thoroughly unconventional, yearning for a more striking role in life, but her sympathies embrace all of humankind, and the portrait of her good but unimaginative husband Duncan is profoundly moving and perceptive. Buy Joan Makes History New by Grenville, Kate (ISBN: 9780749391386) from Amazons Book Store. The brilliant Australian author of the award-winning Lillian's Story achieves something utterly original and moving in this fanciful feminist epic.

Joan Makes History by Kate Grenville