Country Schoolmaster

A mesmerising reconstruction of a hundred-year-old true story Kate Grenville discovered in the archives I stood there holding the hundred-year-old letter with a feeling that was familiar from other archives, other bulging files of dog-eared paper. It was a blood-running-fast, itchy-palm, eyes-wide-open feeling of stumbling on something. A story Rummaging around in the archives one afternoon, Kat...