Restless Dolly Maunder

The Booker-shortlisted international bestselling author returns with a fictionalised account of her grandmother's life.

Dolly Maunder is born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society's long-locked doors are just starting to creak ajar for determined women. Growing up in a poor farming family in rural New South Wales, Dolly spends her life doggedly pushing at those doors. A husband and two children do not deter her from searching for love and independence.

Shortlisted for The Women's Prize for Fiction 2024.