The Amazing Mrs Livesey: The remarkable story of Australia's greatest imposter

Freda Marnie Nicholls

The Amazing Mrs Livesey: The remarkable story of Australia's greatest imposter
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Country
Australia
Published
29 March 2017
Pages
320
ISBN
9781760296193

The Amazing Mrs Livesey: The remarkable story of Australia’s greatest imposter

Freda Marnie Nicholls

Ethel Livesey was quite a gal.

An attractive young woman from a respectable middle-class family in Manchester, she had over forty 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 the 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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