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Grenville, Kate, 1950-
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Macarthur, John, 1767-1834 -- Fiction.
Macarthur, Elizabeth, 1766?-1850 -- Fiction.
Married people -- Fiction.
Self-realization in women -- Fiction.
Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Fiction.
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Grenville, Kate, 1950-
Macarthur, John, 1767-1834 -- Fiction.
Macarthur, Elizabeth, 1766?-1850 -- Fiction.
Married people -- Fiction.
Self-realization in women -- Fiction.
Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Fiction.
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A room made of leaves : a novel / Kate Grenville.
by
Grenville, Kate, 1950-
Text Publishing, 2020.
Call #:
FICTION
GRE
Subjects
Macarthur
, John, 1767-1834
--
Fiction
.
Macarthur
,
Elizabeth
, 1766?-1850
--
Fiction
.
Married people
--
Fiction
.
Self-realization in women
--
Fiction
.
Sydney (N.S.W.)
--
Fiction
.
ISBN:
9781922330024 (hc.)
Description:
322 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"It is 1788. Twenty-one-year-old
Elizabeth
is hungry for life but, as the ward of a Devon clergyman, knows she has few prospects. When proud, scarred soldier John
Macarthur
promises her the earth one midsummer's night, she believes him. But
Elizabeth
soon realises she has made a terrible mistake. Her new husband is reckless, tormented, driven by some dark rage at the world. He tells her he is to take up a position as Lieutenant in a New South Wales penal colony and she has no choice but to go. Sailing for six months to the far side of the globe with a child growing inside her, she arrives to find Sydney Town a brutal, dusty, hungry place of makeshift shelters, failing crops, scheming and rumours. All her life she has learned to be obliging, to fold herself up small. Now, in the vast landscapes of an unknown continent,
Elizabeth
has to discover a strength she never imagined, and passions she could never express. Inspired by the real life of a remarkable woman, this is an extraordinarily rich, beautifully wrought novel of resilience, courage and the mystery of human desire."--Publisher.
Genre:
Biographical
fiction
.
Historical
fiction
.
Holds:
3
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Bedford Public Library
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