You are invited to meet Kate Grenville when she discusses One Life: My Mother's Story with Susan Duncan.

When Kate Grenville's mother Nance 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 her 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 where women were expected to have no ambitions beyond the domestic, she ran successful businesses as a registered pharmacist, laid bricks for the family home, and discovered her husband's secret life as a revolutionary.

Join us at 6.3pm on Thursday April 30th, 2015 when Kate Grenville discusses One Life: My Mother's Story with Susan Duncan,

Bookings are essential and can be made online by following this link (fees apply), by phone on 9979 2112 or by email to monavale@berkelouw.com.au.

Cost is $ 10.00, $ 5.00 of which will be credited against any purchases made on the evening.

Payment will be required in advance.

 

About the speakers:

Kate Grenville is one of Australia's most celebrated writers. Her 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 Orange Prize. Grenville's other novels include Sarah Thornhill, The Lieutenant, Lilian's Story, Dark Places  and Joan Makes History.

Susan Duncan enjoyed a 25 year career in journalism including editing two of Australia's  top selling women's magazines. Her bestselling memoir Salvation Creek won the 2007 Neilsen Bookdata Booksellers Choice Award and its sequel The House at Salvation Creek was a bestseller.  She has now turned her hand to fiction and has written two novels, The Briny Cafe and Gone Fishing.

 

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