The unforgiving city / Maggie Joel.
Publication details: Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2019.Description: 425 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781760875251
- 1800-1899
- Politicians -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Married people -- Fiction
- Spouses -- Fiction
- Families -- Fiction
- Family secrets -- Fiction
- Politicians -- Australia -- Fiction
- Husband and wife -- Fiction
- Sisters -- Fiction
- Household employees
- Husband and wife
- Politicians
- Sisters
- Women household employees -- Fiction
- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- History -- 1851-1901 -- Fiction
- New South Wales -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Australia
- New South Wales -- Sydney
- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- A823.4 23
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction - Historical | JOE | Available | 069993 |
Scheduled to be published September 2019.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 424-425)
Fiction.
Secrets and lies throw three lives into chaos in the last days of the nineteenth century. Colonial Sydney in the final weeks of the nineteenth century: a city striving for union and nationhood but dogged by divisions so deep they threaten to derail, not just the Federation, but the colony itself. There are chasms opening too when a clandestine note reaches the wrong hands in the well-to-do household of aspiring politician Alasdair Dunlevy and his wife Eleanor. Below stairs, their maid Alice faces a desperate situation with her wayward sister. Despite sharing a house, Eleanor, Alice and Alasdair are each alone in their torment and must each find some solution, but at what cost to themselves and those they love? Evocative, immediate and involving, this is the sweeping story of three people, their passions and ambitions, and the far-flung ripples their choices will cause.
Adult.