SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024A DAILY MAIL NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2023LONGLISTED
FOR BEST FICTION IN THE INDIE BOOK AWARDS AUSTRALIA 2024Dolly Maunder is born at the end of the
nineteenth century when society's long-locked doors are just starting to creak ajar for
determined women. Growing up in a poor farming family in rural New South Wales Dolly spends
her life doggedly pushing at those doors. A husband and two children do not deter her from
searching for love and independence.Restless Dolly Maunder is a subversive triumphant tale of
a pioneering woman working her way through a world of limits and obstacles who is able -
despite the cost - to make a life she could call her own.
