Girl 43 / Maree Giles
- Bib ID:
- 8038227
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Giles, Maree, author
- Related Online Resources:
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- Edition:
- New edition.
- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
- Description:
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- Sydney, New South Wales : Hachette Australia, 2014
- 1 online resource (256 pages)
- ISBN:
- 9780733633225
- Summary:
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A powerful and shocking novel inspired by the author's time at the infamous Parramatta Girls' Home. The graffiti on the holding room wall says it all: 'Gunyah is hell on earth'. And Ellen's about to find out why. Ellen was never the daughter her mother wanted. Patent leather shoes and frilly dresses just weren't her thing and, at age fourteen, she's ready to leave school and find her own way. No one is going to stop her from going where she wants, doing what she wants, and hanging out with Robbie. Or so she thinks. But when the police turn up, Ellen is deemed to be in 'moral danger' and is sentenced to the Gunyah Training School for Girls. Suddenly, she's no longer Ellen, she's Girl 43, and she has to follow the rules, work hard and - most importantly - stay quiet. When it's discovered that she's pregnant, there's no respite from the staff. Told she isn't capable of bringing up a child, they twist the truth to make her cooperate. But however hard they try, they can't destroy the connection between a mother and her child . . . or can they? Drawn from experiences in Parramatta Girls' Home in the seventies, Girl 43 is a story that could have come straight from today's headlines about the shocking treatment of innocent children and teens by people in the very institutions that were supposed to protect them. "Girl 43 is well written and will make you angry. It deals with a difficult aspect of our history but one that needs to be examined" - Debbie Phillips, Toowoomba Chronicle "Giles tackles some tough topics, not the least of which is forced adoption, but does so in a way that is sensitive to and respectful of the girls who passed through the doors" - Weekend Gold Coast Bulletin "Powerful" - Cleo Magazine.
- Subject:
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- Parramatta Girls Industrial School (Parramatta, N.S.W.)
- Parramatta Girls Industrial School (Parramatta, N.S.W.) -- Fiction
- Girls -- Institutional care -- New South Wales -- Parramatta -- Fiction
- Girls -- Institutional care
- Reformatories for women -- New South Wales -- Parramatta -- Fiction
- Teenage mothers -- Fiction
- Teenage pregnancy -- Fiction
- Vocational training centers -- New South Wales -- Parramatta -- Fiction
- Crime & mystery
- Fiction - General
- Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
- Australian
- Other authors/contributors:
- Hachette Australia
- Copyright:
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Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2014
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