A room made of leaves
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A beautifully wrought novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted and Women Prize-winning Australian novelist Kate Grenville - tells a story of passion and resilience, giving voice to a woman silenced by history; shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
*NEW NOVEL RESTLESS DOLLY MAUNDER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024*
FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AND WOMEN'S PRIZE-WINNING AUSTRALIAN NOVELIST
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION
It is 1788. Twenty-one-year-old Elizabeth is hungry for life but, as the ward of a Devon clergyman, knows she has few prospects. When proud, scarred soldier John Macarthur promises her the earth one midsummer's night, she believes him.
But Elizabeth soon realises she has made a terrible mistake. Her new husband is reckless, tormented, driven by some dark rage at the world. He tells her he is to take up a position as Lieutenant in a New South Wales penal colony and she has no choice but to go. Sailing for six months to the far side of the globe with a child growing inside her, she arrives to find Sydney Town a brutal, dusty, hungry place of makeshift shelters, failing crops, scheming and rumours.
All her life she has learned to be obliging, to fold herself up small. Now, in the vast landscapes of an unknown continent, Elizabeth has to discover a strength she never imagined, and passions she could never express.
Inspired by the real life of a remarkable woman, this is an extraordinarily rich, beautifully wrought novel of resilience, courage and the mystery of human desire.
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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 06 augustus 2020
Aantal pagina's: 336
Illustraties: Nee
Hoofdauteur: Kate Grenville
Hoofduitgeverij: Canongate Books
Editie: Main
Product breedte: 162 mm
Product hoogte: 32 mm
Product lengte: 240 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 240 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 29 mm
Verpakking lengte: 240 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 555 g
EAN: 9781838851231