Join author Sue Williams as she discusses her first fiction novel Elizabeth & Elizabeth, the story of how two women, who should have been bitter foes, combined their courage and wisdom to wield extraordinary power and influence behind the scenes in early colonial Australian history.

Elizabeth & Elizabeth is her first novel and was borne out of an overriding admiration for the women of early colonial history. The novel explores what happens when Elizabeth Macarthur and Elizabeth Macquarie, two women of vision and courage and thrown together in impossible times. Both women wielded extraordinary power and influence behind the scenes in early colonial Sydney.

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