'This novel is bound for glory: it is original, moving, and brilliantly convincing.'VogueLilian Una Singer starts life as the daughter of a prosperous middle-class family. She ends it as a cheerfully eccentric bag-lady living on the streets, quoting Shakespeare for a living. How did she come to take this journey, and why did she make the choices she did?The world presents Lilian with many obstacles, not least the fact that she is a woman. But in spite of everything, she triumphantly makes her life her own, savouring every moment with the reminder that 'everything matters'.Lilian's Story is a wonderful, life-affirming novel from one of our most gifted writers.'Lilian's Story takes you into another world, which is rare.'Guardian'Grenville's prose is breathtaking and her novel is a miracle of characterisation . . . This is a rare and beautiful book.'Boston Globe

Kate Grenville