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Grenville, Kate,
author.
A room made of leaves :
a novel /
Kate Grenville.
Melbourne, Victoria :
Text Publishing,
2020.
322 pages ;
24 cm.
What if Elizabeth Macarthur - wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in early Sydney - had written a shockingly frank secret memoir? In her introduction Kate Grenville tells, tongue firmly in cheek, of discovering a long-hidden box containing that memoir. What follows is a playful dance of possibilities between the real and the invented. Grenville's Elizabeth Macarthur is a passionate woman managing her complicated life-marriage to a ruthless bully, the impulses of her own heart, the search for power in a society that gave her none-with spirit, cunning and sly wit. Her memoir reveals the dark underbelly of the polite world of Jane Austen. It explodes the stereotype of the women of the past - devoted and docile, accepting of their narrow choices. That was their public face-here's what one of them really thought. At the heart of this book is one of the most toxic issues of our times - the seductive appeal of false stories. Beneath the surface of Elizabeth Macarthur's life and the violent colonial world she navigated are secrets and lies with the dangerous power to shape reality.
Winner 2021 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards: Christina Stead Prize for Fiction.
Macarthur, Elizabeth,
1769-1850
Fiction.
Macarthur, John,
1767-1834
Fiction.
Biographical fiction.
5974
Secrecy
Fiction.
20804
Frontier and pioneer life
Australia
Fiction.
22034
Husband and wife
Fiction.
Women
Australia
Social conditions
Fiction.
Self-realization in women
Fiction.
21334
Man-woman relationships
Fiction.
Married people
Fiction.
Australian fiction.
206
Australia
History
1788-1851
Fiction.
Sydney (N.S.W.)
18th century
Fiction.
Biographical fiction
20145
Historical fiction
30
Historical fiction.
fast
30
Australian fiction.
local
32
Biographical fiction.
lcgft
20145
Historical fiction.
lcgft
30
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