Amy's Children
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Abandoned by her feckless husband during the Depression, Amy decides to leave her countrytown-and her three infant children-and try her luck in the big smoke.
Life in wartime Sydney is far from easy, but for Amy there are the hard-won satisfactions of anoffice job and a house of her own. Until her eldest, Kathleen, appears needing a home while sheattends high school. And Amy falls in love with a married man...
Enlivened with note-perfect observations of the everyday, wrenching in its portrayal of a youngwoman struggling to succeed yet often wilfully ignorant of her own children, Olga Masters'second and last novel is a triumph. At its centre is Amy, one of the great characters in Australianliterature.
This edition comes with an introduction by the novelist Eva Hornung.
Author: Olga Masters
Format: Paperback, 274 pages, 128mm x 198mm, 207 g
Published: 2013, Text Publishing, Australia
Genre: General & Literary Fiction
Description
Abandoned by her feckless husband during the Depression, Amy decides to leave her countrytown-and her three infant children-and try her luck in the big smoke.
Life in wartime Sydney is far from easy, but for Amy there are the hard-won satisfactions of anoffice job and a house of her own. Until her eldest, Kathleen, appears needing a home while sheattends high school. And Amy falls in love with a married man...
Enlivened with note-perfect observations of the everyday, wrenching in its portrayal of a youngwoman struggling to succeed yet often wilfully ignorant of her own children, Olga Masters'second and last novel is a triumph. At its centre is Amy, one of the great characters in Australianliterature.
This edition comes with an introduction by the novelist Eva Hornung.
Amy's Children