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1854: The story of how Brisbane was once known as Edenglassie
Edenglassie
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1854: When Mulanyin meets the beautiful Nita in Brisbane – or Edenglassie, as it was once briefly known – his community still outnumbers the British settlers. Tensions are simmering just beneath the surface of a fragile peace, but hopes for independence are running high. Yet when colonial unrest tears through the region, Mulanyin’s passion for his new bride clashes with his loyalty to a homeland in danger.
Two centuries later, fiery activist Winona meets Dr Johnny when her grandmother Eddie has a serious fall. Winona just wants the obstinate centenarian back on her feet, but a shrewd journalist has other ideas. Eddie becomes a local celebrity, dominating the headlines as ‘Queensland’s Oldest Aboriginal’.
Her time in the spotlight brings past and present crashing together, the legacy of Nita and Mulanyin’s tragic past reaching into Winona and Eddie’s lives with consequences they couldn’t have predicted.
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Edenglassie
The novel is set during the time that the transportation of convicts ended, and Queensland became an independent colony in 1859, with a plot line also in the present day.
The title, Edenglassie, is that of a colonial name given to the inner Brisbane area now called Newstead.
The author carried out extensive research into colonial Queensland history. However, she is keen to stress that this novel is fiction, and although some characters did exist in that era, others are her creations.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: Edenglassie
Destination/location: Brisbane, Edenglassie Author/guide: Melissa Lucashenko Departure Time: 1854
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