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Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 Always Greener : The Restless Life of Dolly Russell
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''If there’d been a gun in her hand at that moment she knew she’d have shot them.... She’d been so pleased with little Dolly Russell, the good life she’d got for them all. Thought she had it made, had got her hands at last on the levers of her life.... Now it turned out that all that, being so pleased with herself, was no more real than a puff of smoke.'

'Always Greener is an exquisite portrait of Kate Grenville's complex, conflicted grandmother, who she feared as a child and only in adulthood came to understand. Born in rural Australia, Dolly Russell becomes a successful businessperson, mother and troubled wife. Then came the depression, bankruptcy and World War I. Yet, in a way, those disasters freed her. They allowed her to use her intelligence and ambition to make a space for herself in a man’s world.

'With all the pathos and subtlety that defined Grenville’s Australian classics such as Lilian’s Story and her Booker-shortlisted The Secret RiverAlways Greener tells the story of a generation of women often forgotten at our own cost.' (Publication summary)

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Form: audiobook
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Audible Studios , 2021 .
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      Extent: 3 hrs and 3 minsp.
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      • Published 13 July 2021
      Series: y separately published work icon Audible Original Sydney Michigan : Audible Studios Brilliance Audio , 2019- 18289527 2019 series - publisher
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