Women & Children - Tony Birch torrent

Category: Autobiography & Biographies, Historical Fiction, Violence
Language: English
Keywords: 1960's Australian Coming of Age

Written by Tony Birch
Read by Tamala Shelton
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Women & Children
By: Tony Birch
Narrated by: Tamala Shelton
Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 17-11-2023
Language: English
Publisher: W. F. Howes Ltd

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 amp; Children is a novel about the love and courage between two sisters, and a sudden loss of childhood innocence. ‘Birch writes so convincingly on power and the blinding nature of its corruptive forces … He writes social realism, his metier is those who are economically and socially marginalised, and his deep emotional honesty when telling their stories resonates throughout.’ SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

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