Women & children
Birch, Tony, 1957-2023
Book
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.
Main title:
Women & children / Tony Birch.
Author:
Birch, Tony, 1957-, author
Work:
Imprint:
St Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 2023.©2023
Collation:
317 pages ; 21 cm.
ISBN:
97807022662700702266272
Dewey class:
A823.4F
Language:
English
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Subject:
Working class families -- FictionWorking class families -- Australia -- FictionCatholic schools -- FictionFamily violence -- FictionVictims of family violence -- FictionFamily secrets -- FictionSisters -- FictionCatholic schools -- Australia -- FictionNineteen sixties -- FictionAustralia -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- FictionAustralian fictionDomestic fiction
BRN:
1926812