A Room Made of Leaves - Kate Grenville

Written by Kate Grenville
Read by Valerie Bader
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

A Room Made of Leaves
By: Kate Grenville
Narrated by: Valerie Bader
Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 02-07-2020
Language: English
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

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 and 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.

©2020 Kate Grenville (P)2020 Bolinda Publishing

P.S. If you say thank you, you get another book. ;)