![]() Grenville is hopeful that this is because people want less flimsy novels, and instead are turning to books with more heft as the pandemic causes them to reflect on life. Grenville – who shot to another level of fame in 2005 with The Secret River, a prize-winning novel about the life of a freed convict establishing a farm beside Sydney's Hawkesbury River – says pre-orders are at least where her publisher had forecast, pre-COVID-19. The novel was released this week with a series of virtual promotions, but the pandemic doesn't appear to have affected sales. In her 16th book, A Room Made of Leaves, Grenville is once more returning to the setting of early colonial Australia, in a novel based loosely on the life of sheep farmer Elizabeth Macarthur. ![]() "I'm privileged to be in lockdown most of my day from choice anyway," says the Melbourne-based author. Kate Grenville says she's having a good COVID-19. ![]()
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