lilian's story Author:kate grenville Shielded from emotional and physical abuse by layers of fat, Lilian struggles to escape a suffocating existence in the home of her tyrannical Victorian and fact-spouting father and her elegant but ineffectual mother. Madness, cruelty and sexuality permeate the family's upper-crust Australian world of teacups and servants. Lilian persists ina v... more »igorous quest for a university education, for love, and finally for her own eccentric form of independence. Through it all, her abundant spirit triumphs over crushing forces of destruction.« less