The Amazing Mrs Livesey: The Remarkable Story of Australia's Greatest Imposter
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The Amazing Mrs Livesey: The Remarkable Story of Australia's Greatest Imposter

Paperback – October 1, 2016

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Price
$11.97
Format
Paperback
Pages
320
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1760290146
Dimensions
6 x 1 x 9.5 inches
Weight
1.03 pounds

Description

Freda Marnie Nicholls is a journalist. Luita Frances Aichinger is Ethel Livesey's granddaughter and has her father's tapes and transcripts recording his mother's life.

Features & Highlights

  • Ethel Livesey was quite a gal. An attractive young woman from a respectable middle-class family in Manchester, she had more than 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 prolog 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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A good read if you like True Crime

I am a True Crime buff, and thought it would be interesting to read a story about a woman who was the criminal.

Mrs. Livesey took on several identities through the years, and always seemed to thrive for the most part, even when she was captured several times.

You wanted to dislike her, because she hurt a lot of people and put them in bad conditions by stealing money and valuables from them, but she was just so freaking charming!!!

Clearly she was charming in real life and not just on the pages of this book, as she seemed to be able to easily con even the sharpest of people.

Her final trial towards the end of the book does get a little bogged down, as the transcript repeats many things you have already read, but DO NOT SKIM, because you will get the BEST laugh ever over one conversation that took place in court! :)

I received this book on behalf of NetGalley.
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