TY - BOOK AU - Slattery,Luke TI - Mrs M: an imagined history SN - 9780732271817 : U1 - A823.4 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Sydney, N.S.W. PB - HarperCollins Publishers Australia KW - Greenway, Francis, KW - Greenway, Francis Howard, KW - Macquarie, Elizabeth Henrietta, KW - Macquarie, Lachlan, KW - Australian fiction KW - Historical fiction KW - fast KW - Sydney Cove (N.S.W.) KW - History KW - Fiction KW - 1788-1851 KW - New South Wales KW - Sydney Cove KW - Australian KW - lcgft KW - 21st century N1 - "A bold new world. A passionate woman. One dangerous alliance."_ _Cover N2 - A rich and intense novel of an imagined history of desire, ambition and dashed dreams, and a portrait of one passionate, unforgettable woman - Elizabeth Macquarie. Elizabeth Macquarie, widow of the disgraced former Governor of New South Wales, Lachlan Macquarie, is in mourning - not only for her husband, but the loss of their shared dream to transform the penal colony into a bright new world. Over the course of one long sleepless night on the windswept isle of Mull, she remembers her life in that wild and strange country; a revolution of ideas as dramatic as any in history; and her dangerous alliance with the brilliant, mercurial Francis Greenway, the colony's maverick architect. A stirring, provocative and thrilling novel of passion, ideas, reforming zeal and desire ER -