Women & Children

Tony Birch

• Publisher: University of Queensland Press
• eBook ISBN:
  9780702268144
• Year: 2023

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.

Table of contents

• Praise for Women & Children
• Author Biography
• Also by Tony Birch
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Chapter One
• Chapter Two
• Chapter Three
• Chapter Four
• Chapter Five
• Chapter Six
• Chapter Seven
• Chapter Eight
• Chapter Nine
• Chapter Ten
• Chapter Eleven
• Chapter Twelve
• Chapter Thirteen
• Chapter Fourteen
• Chapter Fifteen
• Chapter Sixteen
• Author’s Note
• Imprint Page