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In this rollicking, irreverent tour de force, Kate Grenville rewrites the familiar past. Joan is a woman of no great distinction, but in the life of her imagination she is in the front line of events, cheerfully altering history. Joan Makes History was first published in 1988 and was funded by the Australian Bicentennial Authority to celebrate 200 years of history. Kate Grenville is an award-winning novelist with a distinctively witty style.

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A virtuoso performance by a writer from the Antipodes who belongs at the center of the fiction map. -- Kirkus Reviews

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"Kate Grenville is the author of ""Dark Places,"" winner of the Victorian Premiere's Prize;"" Dreamhouse""; ""The Idea of Perfection,"" which won the Orange Prize for Fiction; ""The Lieutenant""; ""Lilian's Story,"" winner of the Vogel/Australian Prize; and ""Searching the Secret River,"" which was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize. Her long experience as a creative writing teacher led her to publish ""The Writing Book"" and ""Writing from Start to Finish."""

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