Kate Grenville is one of Australia’s most celebrated authors. Her bestselling novel The Secret River has been published in more than twenty countries and received numerous awards, including the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Her novel The Idea of Perfection won Britain’s prestigious Orange Prize for Fiction. Her other acclaimed novels include Sarah Thornhill, The Lieutenant, Lilian’s Story, Dark Places and Joan Makes History.