Kate Grenville

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Kate Grenville


Born
in Sydney, Australia
October 14, 1950

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Genre
Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction


Kate Grenville is one of Australia's best-known authors. She's published eight books of fiction and four books about the writing process. Her best-known works are the international best-seller The Secret River, The Idea of Perfection, The Lieutenant and Lilian's Story (details about all Kate Grenville's books are elsewhere on this site). Her novels have won many awards both in Australia and the UK, several have been made into major feature films, and all have been translated into European and Asian languages.

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Average rating: 3.8 · 61,169 ratings · 6,167 reviews · 40 distinct works • Similar authors
The Secret River
3.81 avg rating — 25,355 ratings — published 2005 — 66 editions
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A Room Made of Leaves
3.85 avg rating — 10,492 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions
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The Lieutenant
3.68 avg rating — 5,781 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions
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Restless Dolly Maunder
3.85 avg rating — 4,458 ratings — published 2023
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Sarah Thornhill
3.87 avg rating — 3,808 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions
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The Idea of Perfection
3.65 avg rating — 3,783 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions
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One Life: My Mother's Story
4.08 avg rating — 2,029 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions
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Lilian's Story
3.70 avg rating — 1,692 ratings — published 1984 — 34 editions
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Searching for the Secret River
3.97 avg rating — 617 ratings — published 2006 — 14 editions
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Dark Places
3.66 avg rating — 656 ratings — published 1994 — 20 editions
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Series by Kate Grenville

The Secret River The Lieutenant Sarah Thornhill
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Lilian's Story Dark Places Joan Makes History
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Lilian's Story
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“How short a time a person had to be alive, he thought. How long to be dead.”
― Kate Grenville, The Secret River
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“Anyone can be lovely, but you are rare.”
― Kate Grenville, Lilian's Story
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“Everything in his life had come down to the sensation of her fingers against his. The person he was, the history he carried within himself, every joy and grief he had ever experienced, slipped way like an irrelevant garment. He was nothing but skin, speaking to another skin, and between the skins there was no need to find any words.”
― Kate Grenville, The Lieutenant
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