One Life: My Mother's Story by Kate Grenville
Nance was a week short of her sixth birthday when she and Frank were roused out of bed in the dark and lifted into the buggy, squashed in with bedding, the cooking pots rattling around in the back, and her mother shouting back towards the house: Goodbye, Rothsay, I hope I never see you again!
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.
Format: Hardback | 224 pages
Dimensions (cm): 21.6 x 14.2 x 2.7 | 544g -
Publication Date: 24 Mar 2015
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Publication City/Country: Melbourne, Australia
Language: English
Illustrations note: b&w/colour photos
Edition Number: 1
ISBN10: 1922182052
ISBN13: 9781922182050
Condition: Good
A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including tiny scuff marks along the edges, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket is included and in good condition (very minor scuff marks along the edges, and a minor, faint patch of discolouring on the part that covers the top-left corner of the back cover). The majority of pages are undamaged with no creasing or tearing, no pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text and no writing in margins. There is very minor, very faint discolouring bordering a very small handful of pages. No missing pages.