![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We’re there, with Elizabeth, really getting to know her as she adds each entry. Delivering this tale as a journal is a stroke of genius. It is historical fiction turned inside out, a stunning sleight of hand that gives the past the piercing immediacy of the present. What if Elizabeth Macarthur-wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in the earliest days of Sydney-had written a shockingly frank secret memoir? And what if novelist Kate Grenville had miraculously found and published it? That’s the starting point for A Room Made of Leaves, a playful dance of possibilities between the real and the invented.Ī Room Made of Leaves is the internationally acclaimed author Kate Grenville’s first novel in almost a decade, once again showing how she is one of our most original writers. “Do not believe too quickly.” – Elizabeth Macarthur ![]()
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