"Vividly rendered, warmly sympathetic, daring in speculative breadth: a full-length portrait in oils of a woman known to most of us only in profile miniature.If Grenville's novel is inspired by provocation, it unfolds as a feeling, organic story." Australian ; "Grenville so convincingly creates Elizabeth's voice it is easy to forget her opening warning: 'Do not believe too quickly!'.Grenville's Elizabeth stays with you." Conversation ; "Grenville is as canny as she is imaginative.[She] colours your imagination, designs a setting and gives you a push. Australian history is relentlessly inglorious but Grenville allows you to rearrange it through individuals who were not.An interesting prism of a book.

Grenville knows exactly what she can do and does it." Monthly ; "Grenville invites the reader to reflect on the complex relationship between truth and falsehood, history and fiction.[A] stunning literary achievement." Kirsten Tranter, Guardian PRAISE FOR KATE GRENVILLE: "Grenville's psychological acuity, and the sheer gorgeousness of her descriptions of the territory being fought over, pulls us ever deeper into a time when one community's opportunity spelled another's doom." The New Yorker on The Secret River ; Exquisite .a magnificent work of fiction." Washington Post on The Lieutenant ; "Vivid . Delightful .

Grenville's storytelling shines." Publishers Weekly on The Lieutenant.