Women & children / Working class families Catholic schools Family violence Victims of family violence Family secrets Sisters Nineteen sixties
Birch, Tony, 1957-
Women & children / Women and children. Tony Birch. - 317 pages ; 21 cm.
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.
9780702266270 0702266272
21970941
Working class families--Fiction.
Working class families--Australia--Fiction.
Catholic schools--Fiction.
Family violence--Fiction.
Victims of family violence--Fiction.
Family secrets--Fiction.
Sisters--Fiction.
Catholic schools--Australia--Fiction.
Nineteen sixties--Fiction.
Australia--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
Australian fiction.
Domestic fiction.
A823.4
Women & children / Women and children. Tony Birch. - 317 pages ; 21 cm.
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.
9780702266270 0702266272
21970941
Working class families--Fiction.
Working class families--Australia--Fiction.
Catholic schools--Fiction.
Family violence--Fiction.
Victims of family violence--Fiction.
Family secrets--Fiction.
Sisters--Fiction.
Catholic schools--Australia--Fiction.
Nineteen sixties--Fiction.
Australia--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
Australian fiction.
Domestic fiction.
A823.4