Mrs M by Luke Slattery

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor edgewear. Remnant mark on tail foredge.

Elizabeth Macquarie, the widow of the disgraced former Governor of New South Wales, Lachlan Macquarie, is in mourning - not only for her husband but for the loss of their shared dream to transform the penal colony 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. (back cover)