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  • Book: The Lieutenant
  • Location: Sydney
  • Author: Kate Grenville

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‘Grenville’s prose is clear and clean, employing a gently leading storytelling style that is especially welcome with a foreign land and a foreign time … Grenville has brought imagination and compassion to the source of so much of Australia’s retroactive hand-wringing. What distinguishes her portrayal of Aboriginal culture is that or once appreciation, sympathy and admiration get the better of impotent guilt.’ Daily Telegraph

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