TY  - BOOK
AU  - O'Connor,Mary-Anne
TI  - Sisters of freedom
SN  - 9781867244493 (paperback)
U1  - A823.4 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Sydney, NSW
PB  - HQ Fiction
KW  - Sisters
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Women's rights
KW  - Australia
KW  - History
KW  - Sydney (N.S.W.)
KW  - 1901-1945
KW  - 1901-1914
KW  - Australian fiction
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Domestic fiction
N1  - First published: 2021; "Love, motherhood, the vote ... could they have it all?"--Cover
N2  - "Sydney, Christmas, 1901. Federation has been achieved but Australian women are yet to gain the right to vote in their new nation's elections and have a say in the laws that govern them. Bolshy, boisterous Frankie Merriweather is a fervent advocate for women's rights, determined to dedicate herself to the cause, never marrying or becoming a mother. She can't understand her artistic sister Ivy, who wants a life of ease and beauty with her soon-to-be fiance, law student Patrick Earle. Meanwhile, their married sister Aggie volunteers in an orphanage, decrying the inequality of Australia's social classes ... and longing to hold a baby in her arms. When an accident takes Ivy, wounded and ill, into the violent and lawless zone of the Hawkesbury River, a year of change begins. Ivy's burgeoning friendship with her saviour Riley Logan, a smuggler, and his sister, the poverty-stricken but valiant Fiona, will alter the lives of all three women forever." -- Back cover
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