A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville

A Room Made of Leaves by Kate GrenvilleWhat 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

This was the Wild South

She is also the author of one book for adults

as well as experience of its everyday life

It is a tale of conflicting loyalties and desires

followed by many rounds of fertility treatments

Next to them was a long gun

Here she is at her most profound and inventive

The world’s Indigenous communities are fighting to live and dying too young

Luckily her bold new friend Sparrow lets Zadie keep Jupiter at her house till Zadie can work things out

and moreover

Her stories about her early childhood as Dadina

This is a work that goes far beyond the birds themselves to explore the relationships between Australia's birds and its people