Mrs. M

Author(s): Luke Slattery

SECONDHAND BOOKS | Australian Fiction

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.

2017. First edition. A fine, unmarked copy in a fine d/w. A like new copy.


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9780732271817
  • : HarperCollins Publishers Australia
  • : Fourth Estate
  • : 0.494
  • : September 2017
  • : 221mm X 163mm X 31mm
  • : Australia
  • : November 2017
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 320
  • : 720.92
  • : en
  • : 1117
  • : Hardback
  • : Luke Slattery