The last of the Bonegilla girls / Victoria Purman
- Bib ID:
- 7760752
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Purman, Victoria, author
- Edition:
- First Australian paperback edition.
- Description:
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- Sydney, NSW : HQ Fiction, 2018
- ©2018
- 419 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781489246752 (paperback)
- Summary:
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1954: When sixteen-year-old Hungarian Elizabeta arrives in Australia with her family, she is hoping to escape the hopelessness of life as a refugee in post-war Germany. Her first stop is the Bonegilla Migrant Camp on the banks of the Murray in rural Victoria, a temporary home for thousands of new arrivals, all looking for work and a better life. There, Elizabeta becomes firm friends with three other girls. The Bonegilla girls rush together towards a life that seems full of promise, even as they cope with the legacy of war, the oppressive nature of family tradition and ever-present sorrow. So when a ghost from the past reaches out for Elizabeta and threatens to pull her back into the shadows, there is nothing that her friends wouldn't do to keep her safe.
- Subject:
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- Bonegilla Migrant Reception Centre -- Fiction
- Friendship -- Fiction
- Sisters -- Fiction
- Families -- Fiction
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
- Female friendship -- Fiction
- Immigrants -- Australia -- Fiction
- Secrecy -- Fiction
- Victoria -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Australian
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2018
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