Joan Makes History

Joan is a wife and mother of no great distinction, but in the life of her imagination she is in the front line of events, effortlessly subverting the solemnity of momentous occasions and cheerfully altering the course of history. 'A virtuoso performance by a writer from the Antipodes who belongs at the center of the fiction map.’ Kirkus Reviews‘A funny, moving, brilliantly contrived story about the Every woman unsung by straight historians.’ The Age‘Australia is colonised but from the female point of view. Joan is observant, calm, tender, angry, despairing. Kate Grenville understands the comic poetry of suffering.’ Thea Astley‘This fanciful feminist epic is funny and sometimes piercingly poignant.’ Publishers Weekly