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Elizabeth Macquarie, widow of the reformist Governor of New South Wales, Lachlan Macquarie, is in mourning - not only for her husband but also 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 Scottish islan
Elizabeth Macquarie, widow of the reformist Governor of New South Wales, Lachlan Macquarie, is in mourning - not only for her husband but also 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 Scottish island 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 colony's brilliant, mercurial convict architect.From one of Australia's foremost journalists, Luke Slattery, comes a bravura literary achievement, a rich and intense novel, an imagined history of desire, ambition and dashed dreams, and a portrait of one passionate, unforgettable woman - Elizabeth Macquarie.
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