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Joan Makes History

by Kate Grenville · 1988

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In this rollicking, irreverent tour de force, Kate Grenville rewrites the familiar past.

Joan is a woman of no great distinction, but in the life of her imagination she is in the front line of events, cheerfully altering history.

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Joan Makes History was first published in 1988 and was funded by the Australian Bicentennial Authority to celebrate 200 years of history.

Kate Grenville is an award-winning novelist with a distinctively witty style.

Genre
historical fiction
Setting
Australia
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 285 pages

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