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The Amazing Mrs Livesey

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Ethel Livesey was quite a gal.

An attractive young woman from a respectable middle-class family in Manchester, she had over 40 aliases, eight official marriages, four children and five divorces. Her story stretches from industrial England to the French Riviera, from Ireland to New York, Shanghai, New Zealand, the Isle of Man and across Australia. Ethel claimed she was a cotton heiress, wartime nurse, casino hostess, stowaway, artist, opera singer, gambler, spy, close friend of the King, air raid warden, charity queen and even wife of Australian test cricketer Jack Fingleton.

When her career imploded (with the abandonment of her glittering society marriage in post-war Sydney just two hours before the guests were due to arrive), the story of the Amazing Mrs Livesey was blazoned across newspapers around the world. But what was fact and what was fiction?

With a prologue by Ethel Livesey's granddaughter, this extraordinary and constantly surprising story of the woman who was possibly Australia's greatest fraudster is told for the first time in rich and fascinating detail.


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Publisher: Allen & Unwin

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  • ISBN: 9781952533280
  • File size: 3843 KB
  • Release date: March 14, 2016

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9781952533280
  • File size: 3843 KB
  • Release date: March 14, 2016

PDF ebook

  • ISBN: 9781952533280
  • File size: 8614 KB
  • Release date: March 14, 2016

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English

Ethel Livesey was quite a gal.

An attractive young woman from a respectable middle-class family in Manchester, she had over 40 aliases, eight official marriages, four children and five divorces. Her story stretches from industrial England to the French Riviera, from Ireland to New York, Shanghai, New Zealand, the Isle of Man and across Australia. Ethel claimed she was a cotton heiress, wartime nurse, casino hostess, stowaway, artist, opera singer, gambler, spy, close friend of the King, air raid warden, charity queen and even wife of Australian test cricketer Jack Fingleton.

When her career imploded (with the abandonment of her glittering society marriage in post-war Sydney just two hours before the guests were due to arrive), the story of the Amazing Mrs Livesey was blazoned across newspapers around the world. But what was fact and what was fiction?

With a prologue by Ethel Livesey's granddaughter, this extraordinary and constantly surprising story of the woman who was possibly Australia's greatest fraudster is told for the first time in rich and fascinating detail.


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  • Details

    Publisher:
    Allen & Unwin

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9781952533280
    File size: 3843 KB
    Release date: March 14, 2016

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9781952533280
    File size: 3843 KB
    Release date: March 14, 2016

    PDF ebook
    ISBN: 9781952533280
    File size: 8614 KB
    Release date: March 14, 2016

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  • Formats
    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook
    PDF ebook
  • Languages
    English