Penrhos College and Dymocks Garden City invite you to join us for morning tea with best-selling author KATE GRENVILLE in conversation with Alecia Hancock, State Director of the Australian Writers’ Centre. Monday, 20 April 2015, 10.30am Penrhos College Resource Centre 6 Morrison Street COMO WA 6152 Tickets are $5 each – proceeds to the Discovery Book Club, run by The Department for Child Protection and Family Support (Cannington District). Kate will be signing copies of her new book, One Life: My Mother’s Story. When Kate Grenville’s mother died she left behind many fragments of memoir. These were the starting point for One Life, the story of a woman whose life spanned a century of tumult and change. In many ways Nance’s story echoes that of many mothers and grandmothers, for whom the spectacular shifts of the twentieth century offered a path to new freedoms and choices. In other ways Nance was exceptional. In an era when women were expected to have no ambitions beyond the domestic, she ran successful businesses as a registered pharmacist, laid the bricks for the family home, and discovered her husband’s secret life as a revolutionary. One Life is an act of great imaginative sympathy, a daughter’s intimate account of the patterns in her mother’s life. It is a deeply moving homage by one of Australia’s finest writers. Please book online: http://www.trybooking.com/HDSR About the Author Kate Grenville is one of Australia’s most celebrated writers. Her bestselling novel The Secret River received the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award. The Idea of Perfection won the Orange Prize. Grenville’s other novels include Sarah Thornhill, The Lieutenant, Lilian’s Story, Dark Places and Joan Makes History.