The Country Schoolmaster

A Mystery in 88 Letters
A page-turning, epistolary mystery from Women’s Prize-winning, Booker-shortlisted author Kate Grenville

FROM THE WOMEN’S PRIZE-WINNING, BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR

‘One of Australia’s finest writers’ Daily Telegraph
‘Grenville inhabits characters with a rare completeness’ Jay Parini

‘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, Kate Grenville comes across an innocuous-looking file of letters about a schoolteacher in New South Wales. Intrigued, she keeps reading – and discovers a tale far more curious and complex than she ever could have imagined. Contradictory perspectives on Joseph Connor are ev