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1004028598

Large print A room made of leaves / Kate Grenville.

Author: Grenville, Kate, 1950-

Publication year: 2021

Media class: Large print

Category: Fiction

Publisher: Rearsby : Lamplight Large Print Books, 2021.

Resource type: Physical

ISBN: 9781004028597 (pbk.) :

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It is 1788. 21-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 landscape of an unknown continent, Elizabeth has to discover a strength she never imagined, and passions she could never express.

Australia History 1788-1851 Fiction.