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A room made of leaves : a novel / Kate Grenville.

A room made of leaves : a novel / Kate Grenville.
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Record Number 20900
ISBN 9781922330024 (hardback)
Item Number 40030066350
Location F GRE
Author Grenville, Kate, 1950- (author.).
Title A room made of leaves : a novel / Kate Grenville.
Published Melbourne, Victoria : Text Publishing, 2020.
©2020.
Collation 322 pages ; 24 cm.
Content types text
Carrier type volume
Summary Note 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.
Personal Name Macarthur, Elizabeth,1766-1850
Macarthur, John,1767-1834
Subject Self-realization in women
Married people
Man-woman relationships
Self-realization in women -- Fiction
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
Married people -- Fiction
Secrecy -- Fiction
Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- Fiction
Husband and wife -- Fiction
Women -- Australia -- Social conditions -- Fiction
Australian fiction
Geographic Name New South Wales -- Sydney
Sydney (N.S.W.) -- 18th century -- Fiction
Australia -- History -- 1788-1851 -- Fiction
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