cover image Lilian's Story

Lilian's Story

Kate Grenville. Penguin Books, $6.95 (240pp) ISBN 978-0-14-008547-1

Narrator Lilian grows up in a troubled household (her mother is afflicted by vapors and her pseudo-intellectual father tries to force himself on her sexually). ""Lilian's story often has the quality of a dream recounted while the dreamer is half asleep, which alone is a remarkable achievement,'' PW found. (November)