Other houses /
O'Reilly, P. A.
Other houses / Paddy O'Reilly. - Mulgrave, VIC : Affirm Press, 2022. - 244 pages ; 22 cm.
Lily works as a cleaner. She moves through houses in inner-city Melbourne, unseen, scrubbing away the daily residue of other people's privilege. Her partner Janks works the line in a local food factory. With every pay check they inch further away from their former world of poverty and addiction. Lily and Janks are determined that their daughter Jewelee will have a different life. She'll have a career, not a dead-end job. She'll have savings, not debt. But precarious lives are easily upended. One wrong move throws the family into a situation in which the lines between right and wrong, hope and disappointment, are blurred.
9781922626950 1922626953
Cleaning personnel.
Ex-drug addicts.
Australian fiction.
Cleaning personnel--Fiction.
Ex-drug addicts--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.
Extortion--Fiction.
Melbourne (Vic.)--Fiction.
AUS fiction (Victoria)
Fiction.
A823.4
Other houses / Paddy O'Reilly. - Mulgrave, VIC : Affirm Press, 2022. - 244 pages ; 22 cm.
Lily works as a cleaner. She moves through houses in inner-city Melbourne, unseen, scrubbing away the daily residue of other people's privilege. Her partner Janks works the line in a local food factory. With every pay check they inch further away from their former world of poverty and addiction. Lily and Janks are determined that their daughter Jewelee will have a different life. She'll have a career, not a dead-end job. She'll have savings, not debt. But precarious lives are easily upended. One wrong move throws the family into a situation in which the lines between right and wrong, hope and disappointment, are blurred.
9781922626950 1922626953
Cleaning personnel.
Ex-drug addicts.
Australian fiction.
Cleaning personnel--Fiction.
Ex-drug addicts--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.
Extortion--Fiction.
Melbourne (Vic.)--Fiction.
AUS fiction (Victoria)
Fiction.
A823.4
