TY  - BOOK
AU  - Birch,Tony
TI  - Women & children
SN  - 9780702266270
U1  - A823.4 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - St Lucia, Qld.
PB  - University of Queensland Press
KW  - Working class families
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Australia
KW  - Catholic schools
KW  - Family violence
KW  - Victims of family violence
KW  - Family secrets
KW  - Sisters
KW  - Nineteen sixties
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Australian fiction
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - lcgft
N2  - 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
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