A Room Made of Leaves

“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

"Historical comeuppance is on order in Kate Grenville’s A Room Made of Leaves…White-hot…[An] impressively angry book."—Wall Street Journal

“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