One Life
My Mother's Story
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One Life is the story of Nance Russell, whose life spanned a century of tumult and change. In an act of great imaginative sympathy, her daughter Kate Grenville has drawn on the fragments of memoir Nance left, to create an intimate account of the patterns in her mother's life. In many ways Nance's story echoes that of many mothers and grandmothers, for whom the spectacular shifts of the 20th 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.
Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
Family & Relationships / Parenting / Motherhood
Biography & Autobiography / Women
About this 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.
Reviews
"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
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