| ISBN |
9780702266270 (hardback) |
| Name |
Birch, Tony, 1957- author. |
| Title |
Women & children / Tony Birch. |
| Published |
St Lucia, Queensland : University of Queensland Press, 2023. |
| ©2023 |
| Description |
317 pages ; 21 cm |
| Notes |
Cultural sensitivity advisory notice: Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other First Nations people are advised that this item may contain names, recordings, images, photographs, illustrations and text of deceased people and other content that may be culturally sensitive. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Subjects |
Working class families -- Australia -- Fiction |
| Sisters -- Fiction |
| Catholic schools -- Australia -- Fiction |
| Nineteen sixties -- Fiction |
| Family violence -- Fiction |
| Victims of family violence -- Fiction |
| Family secrets -- Fiction |
| Australian fiction |
| Australian fiction -- Aboriginal Australian authors |
| Australia -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction |
| Genre |
Domestic fiction |
| First Nations |
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