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Nance was weekly short of her 6th birthday when she and Frank were roused out of bed in the dark and lifted into the buggy, squashed together with bedding, the food preparation pots rattling around in the back, and her mother shouting back towards the house, "Good-bye, Rothsay, I hope I never see you again!" When Kate Grenville's mother died, she left out many fragments of memoir. They were the starting place for One Life, the storyplot of a woman whose life spanned a century of tumult and change. In lots of ways Nance's history echoes that of many moms and grandmothers for whom the stunning shifts of the 20th century offered a way to new freedoms and alternatives. In different ways Nance was exceptional. In an age when women were expected to have no ambitions beyond the domestic, she ran successful businesses as a documented pharmacist, laid the bricks for the house, and found out her husband's hidden knowledge life as a cutting edge.
