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Women & Children (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780702268489)
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xIt'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.
Author: Tony Birch
ISBN-10: 0702268488
ISBN-13: 9780702268489
Publisher: University of Queensland Pr (Australia)
Language: English
Published: 01/03/2025
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Author: Tony Birch
ISBN-10: 0702268488
ISBN-13: 9780702268489
Publisher: University of Queensland Pr (Australia)
Language: English
Published: 01/03/2025
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
By Tony Birch
xTony Birch is the author of four novels: Women & Children, which won the 2024 Age Fiction Book of the Year; The White Girl, winner of the 2020 NSW Premier's Award for Indigenous Writing, and shortlisted for the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award; Ghost River; and Blood, which was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2012. In 2017 he was awarded the Patrick White Literary Award. Tony Birch is an activist, historian and essayist, and is currently the Boisbouvier Chair in Australian Literature at the University of Melbourne.
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