Women & Children Women & Children

Women & Children

    • 4.7 • 10 Ratings
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Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2023
31 October
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
328
Pages
PUBLISHER
University of Queensland Press
SELLER
Chicago Review Press, Inc. DBA Independent Publishers Group
SIZE
968.2
KB

Customer Reviews

Billie0963 ,

Harrowing excellence

Well done

Greg Horgan ,

Powerful, simply powerful!

I don’t have the words to express how much this moved me. If you are reading this review then pick up this novel and read it. It is extraordinarily powerful. Thank you Tony.

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