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Restless Dolly Maunder Patterson McConville's children knew it wasThe Booker shortlisted international bestselling author returns with a fictionalised account of her grandmother's life. Dolly Maunder is born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society's long locked doors are just starting to creak ajar for determined women. Growing up in a poor farming family in rural New South Wales, Dolly spends her life doggedly pushing at those doors. A husband and two children do not deter her from searching for love and