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A Room Made of Leaves
Published 21 February 2023
ISBN 9781922790262
Format Paperback
Extent 336pp
AU Price $22.99
NZ Price $26.00

A Room Made of Leaves

Formats & editions
Paperback
21 Feb 2023
Tr. Paperback
31 Aug 2021
Hardback
2 July 2020
EBook
2 July 2020
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Kate Grenville’s latest bestselling novel, now in a smaller format and featuring a beautiful updated cover design

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?

Marriage to a ruthless bully, the impulses of her heart, the search for power in a society that gave women none: this Elizabeth Macarthur manages her complicated life with spirit and passion, cunning and sly wit. Her memoir lets us hear—at last!—what one of those seemingly demure women from history might really have thought.

A Room Made of Leaves is set in the past, but it’s just as much about the present, where lies have the dangerous power to shape reality. This book is historical fiction turned inside out, a stunning sleight of hand by one of our most original writers.
Published 21 February 2023
ISBN 9781922790262
Format Paperback
Extent 336pp
AU Price $22.99
NZ Price $26.00

About the author

Kate Grenville

Kate Grenville is one of Australia’s most celebrated writers. Her international bestseller The Secret River was awarded local and overseas prizes, has been adapted for the stage and as an acclaimed television miniseries, and is now a much-loved classic. Grenville’s other novels include A Room Made of Leaves, Sarah Thornhill, The Lieutenant, Dark Places and the Orange Prize winner The Idea of Perfection. Her non-fiction books include One Life: My Mother’s Story and The Case Against Fragrance. She has also written three books about the writing process. In 2017 Grenville was awarded the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature.
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Also by Kate Grenville

The Secret River
Restless Dolly Maunder
Elizabeth Macarthur’s Letters
Lilian's Story: Text Classics
The Case Against Fragrance
One Life
Dark Places: Text Classics
See all

Praise for A Room Made of Leaves

Excellent…So beautifully observed and written…An accomplished novel with all the experience that a writer like Kate Grenville brings to her work...Really a superb piece of work.

Leigh Sales

Kate Grenville is a literary alchemist, turning the leaden shadow of the historical Elizabeth Macarthur into a luminescent, golden woman for our times. Intelligent, compassionate, strategic and dead sexy, Grenville’s Macarthur is an unforgettable character who makes us question everything we thought we knew about our colonial past. A polished gem of a novel by a writer who is as brave as she is insightful. I simply loved it.

Clare Wright

Vividly rendered, warmly sympathetic, daring in speculative breadth: a full-length portrait in oils of a woman known to most of us only in profile miniature…If Grenville’s novel is inspired by provocation, it unfolds as a feeling, organic story.

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