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MARC 21

A room made of leaves
Tag	Description
020	$a9781922330024
082	$aAFA GRE
100	$aGrenville, Kate,$d1950-,$eauthor.
245	$aA room made of leaves$ba novel
260	$aMelbourne, Victoria :$bText Publishing,$c2020
300	$a322 pages ;$c24 cm.
520	$aWhat 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.
600	$aMacarthur, Elizabeth,$d1769-1850$vFiction.
600	$aMacarthur, John,$d1767-1834$vFiction.
650	$aBiographical fiction.
650	$aSelf-realization in women$vFiction.
650	$aMan-woman relationships
650	$aMarried people
650	$aSecrecy
650	$aFrontier and pioneer life
655	$aAustralian fiction.