Mrs. M
Author(s): Luke Slattery
From one of Australia's foremost journalists, Luke Slattery, comes a bravura literary achievement, a rich and intense novel of an imagined history of desire, ambition and dashed dreams, and a portrait of one passionate, unforgettable woman - Elizabeth Macquarie. Elizabeth Macquarie, widow of the disgraced former Governor of Australia, Lachlan Macquarie, is in mourning - not only for her husband, but the loss of their shared dream to transform the penal colony of Australia into a bright new world. Over the course of one long sleepless night on the windswept isle of Mull, she remembers her life in that wild and strange country; a revolution of ideas as dramatic as any in history; and her dangerous alliance with the brilliant, mercurial Francis Greenway, the colony's maverick architect. A stirring, provocative and thrilling novel of passion, ideas, reforming zeal and desire.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : HarperCollins Publishers Australia
- : Fourth Estate
- : 0.494
- : 01 September 2017
- : 221mm X 163mm X 31mm
- : Australia
- : 01 November 2017
- : books
Special Fields
- : Luke Slattery
- : Hardback
- : 1117
- : en
- : 320