| Author | Kate Grenville |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Literary novel |
| Publisher | Macmillan |
| Publication place | Australia |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 375 pp. |
| Awards | 1995 Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction, winner |
| ISBN | 0732907896 |
Dark Places is a 1994 novel by the Australian author Kate Grenville. [1] The novel is also known by the title Albion's Story.
It was the winner of the 1995 Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction. [2]
Rather than being a sequel this novel re-tells the story of the author's earlier work, Lilian's Story, from the point of view of Albion Gidley Singer, the father. Singer was the patriarchal villian of the earlier novel, bully and rapist.
Kerryn Goldsworthy, writing in Australian Book Review noted: "Readers who appreciated Lilian's Story, of whom there are many, won't be disappointed by Dark Places, but it will make them profoundly uncomfortable." [3]
In The Independent Maggie Traugott concluded: "What is so impressive in both novels is the force Grenville marshals to reveal character: the pellucid confession, the dialogue's stinging wit, the eloquence of descriptive detail." [4]
After the novel's initial publication in Australia by Macmillan [1] it was reprinted as follows: