Women & children / Tony Birch
- Bib ID:
- 10008643
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Birch, Tony, 1957-, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
- Related Online Resources:
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- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at the State Library of Queensland, National Library of Australia
- Description:
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- St Lucia, Queensland : University of Queensland Press, 2023
- ©2023
- 1 online resource.
- File Characteristics:
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- text file
- EPUB
- 1.2MB
- ISBN:
- 9780702268144
- Summary:
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A powerful, personal novel about women, children and justice, from one of this country's most loved and clear-eyed writers. It's 1965 and Joe Cluny is living in a working-class suburb with his mum, Marion, and sister, Ruby, spending his days trying to avoid trouble with the nuns at the local Catholic primary school. One evening his Aunty Oona appears on the doorstep, distressed and needing somewhere to stay. As his mum and aunty work out what to do, Joe comes to understand the secrets that the women in his family carry, including on their bodies. Yet their pleas for assistance are met with silence and complicity from all sides. Who will help Joe's family at their time of need? Women & Children is a novel about the love and courage between two sisters, and a sudden loss of childhood innocence.
A powerful, personal novel about women, children and justice, from one of this country's most loved and clear-eyed writers.It's 1965 and Joe Cluny is living in a working-class suburb with his mum, Marion, and sister, Ruby, spending his days trying to avoid trouble with the nuns at the local Catholic primary school. One evening his Aunty Oona appears on the doorstep, distressed and needing somewhere to stay. As his mum and aunty work out what to do, Joe comes to understand the secrets that the women in his family carry, including on their bodies. Yet their pleas for assistance are met with silence and complicity from all sides. Who will help Joe's family at their time of need? Women & Children is a novel about the love and courage between two sisters, and a sudden loss of childhood innocence.
A powerful, personal novel about women, children and justice, from one of this country's most-loved and clear-eyed storytellers.It's 1965 and Joe Cluny is living in a working-class suburb with his mum, Marion, and sister, Ruby, spending his days trying to avoid trouble with the nuns at the local Catholic primary school. One evening his Aunty Oona appears on the doorstep, distressed and needing somewhere to stay. As his mum and aunty work out what to do, Joe comes to understand the secrets that the women in his family carry, including on their bodies. Yet their pleas for assistance are met with silence and complicity from all sides. Who will help Joe's family at their time of need? Women & Children is a novel about the love and courage between two sisters, and a sudden loss of childhood innocence.
A powerful, personal novel about women, children and justice, from one of this country's most-loved and clear-eyed storytellers.It's 1965 and Joe Cluny is living in a working-class suburb with his mum, Marion, and sister, Ruby, spending his days trying to avoid trouble with the nuns at the local Catholic primary school. One evening his Aunty Oona appears on the doorstep, distressed and needing somewhere to stay. As his mum and aunty work out what to do, Joe comes to understand the secrets that the women in his family carry, including on their bodies. Yet their pleas for assistance are met with silence and complicity from all sides. Who will help Joe's family at their time of need?Women & Children is a novel about the love and courage between two sisters, and a sudden loss of childhood innocence.
It's 1965 and Joe Cluny is living in a working-class suburb with his mum, Marion, and sister, Ruby, spending his days trying to avoid trouble with the nuns at the local Catholic primary school. One evening his Aunty Oona appears on the doorstep, distressed and needing somewhere to stay. As his mum and aunty work out what to do, Joe comes to understand the secrets that the women in his family carry, including on their bodies. Yet their pleas for assistance are met with silence and complicity from all sides. Who will help Joe's family at their time of need? Women & Children is a novel about the love and courage between two sisters, and a sudden loss of childhood innocence.
- Related Title:
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- Alma Collection Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authors
- Alma Collection Books
- First Nations (AIATSIS) Subject:
- Subject:
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- Australian fiction
- Australian fiction -- Aboriginal Australian authors
- Catholic schools -- Fiction
- Catholic schools -- Australia -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Families -- Australia -- Fiction
- Family secrets -- Fiction
- Family violence -- Fiction
- Mothers and sons -- Fiction
- Nineteen sixties -- Fiction
- Sisters -- Fiction
- Victims of family violence -- Fiction
- Working class families -- Fiction
- Working class families -- Australia -- Fiction
- ABIA nominations
- Modern & contemporary fiction
- Nineteen sixties 1960s
- Novel -- English -- Australia -- 20th century -- Texts
- Religion and religious buildings
- Siblings
- Women
- Catholic schools
- Families
- Family secrets
- Family violence
- historical novel society
- Australia -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Greater Melbourne [Naarm] (Vic.) (Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong Countries)
- Australia
- Australian
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- Other authors/contributors:
- Birch, Tony, 1957-, author
- Also Titled:
- Women and children
- Copyright:
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