They who nicked the sun : a novel / Lindy Warrell
- Bib ID:
- 10023972
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Warrell, Lindy, 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 National Library of Australia, State Library of South Australia
- Description:
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- Adelaide : Wattletales Publishing, 2024
- 1 online resource.
- File Characteristics:
- text file EPUB 395KB
- ISBN:
- 9780645312966 (EPUB)
- Invalid ISBN:
- 9780645312959 (paperback)
- Summary:
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Fleeing her cruel husband, 60-year-old Ruby Marie Wilson finds herself broke and living in her car in a strange city with her beloved old Kelpie, Roo. She jumps at a Housing Commission offer of a tower bedsit in cosmopolitan Prahran. As Ruby searches for meaning in her new world of high-rise compatriots, itinerants, their dogs, public parks and talking trees, she struggles to learn the ropes of living on a pension and mourns her loss of status. She soon makes friends, but just as she begins to feel safe, disaster strikes, causing her to question who she is and what it means to truly belong. Set in 2004, They Who Nicked the Sun offers a glimpse of what it is like living in high-rise public housing by exploring how an elderly woman -- the protagonist -- builds a new, if impoverished, life after fleeing domestic violence. The underlying theme is how we, as humans, yearn to belong as she joins with her high-rise compatriots, itinerants, and dogs, among public parks and talking trees.
- Subject:
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- Abused wives -- Fiction
- Apartment dwellers -- Fiction
- High-rise apartment buildings -- Social aspects -- Fiction
- High-rise apartment buildings -- Victoria -- Prahran -- Fiction
- Middle-aged women -- Social conditions -- Fiction
- Poverty -- Fiction
- Public housing -- Social aspects -- Fiction
- Public housing -- Victoria -- Prahran -- Fiction
- Modern & contemporary fiction
- Prahran (Vic.) -- Fiction
- Australian
- Genre/Form:
- Electronic books
- Copyright Information:
- Copyright © Lindy Warrell
- Available From:
- Australian Prepublication Data Service
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Material type:
- Literary, dramatic or musical work
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2024
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