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A room made of leaves: a novel : Book Club set Kate Grenville.

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Book Club   Hallidays Point . On Loan, Reserved . 22 May 2024
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Shelf Location BookClub/G
Book Club
Author Grenville, Kate, 1950- author.
Title A room made of leaves : a novel : Book Club set / Kate Grenville.
Publication Details Melbourne, Victoria ::
2020. Text Publishing,,
©2020.
Collation 322 pages ; : 24 cm. ; 10 copies ;
Abstract/Summary 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.
Awards Notes 2021 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction winner.
Subject Macarthur, Elizabeth, -- 1769-1850 Fiction.
Macarthur, John, -- 1767-1834 Fiction.
Secrecy -- Fiction
Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- Fiction
Husband and wife -- Fiction
Women -- Australia -- Social conditions -- Fiction
Australian fiction
Book Club set
Australia -- History -- 1788-1851 -- Fiction.
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