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By: O'Reilly, P. A. (Paddy A.) [author.]Material type: Text

TextPublisher: South Melbourne, Vic. : Affirm Press, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: 244 pages ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781922626950; 1922626953Subject(s): Cleaning personnel -- Fiction | Ex-drug addicts -- Fiction | Families -- Fiction | Extortion -- Fiction | Melbourne (Vic.) -- FictionGenre/Form: Australian fiction. DDC classification: A823.4 Summary: Lily works as a cleaner. She moves through houses in inner-city Melbourne, unseen, scrubbing away the daily residue of other people's privilege. Her partner Janks works the line in a local food factory. With every pay check they inch further away from their former world of poverty and addiction. Lily and Janks are determined that their daughter Jewelee will have a different life. She'll have a career, not a dead-end job. She'll have savings, not debt. But precarious lives are easily upended. One wrong move throws the family into a situation in which the lines between right and wrong, hope and disappointment, are blurred.

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Lily works as a cleaner. She moves through houses in inner-city Melbourne, unseen, scrubbing away the daily residue of other people's privilege. Her partner Janks works the line in a local food factory. With every pay check they inch further away from their former world of poverty and addiction. Lily and Janks are determined that their daughter Jewelee will have a different life. She'll have a career, not a dead-end job. She'll have savings, not debt. But precarious lives are easily upended. One wrong move throws the family into a situation in which the lines between right and wrong, hope and disappointment, are blurred.

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