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Melting moments / Anna Goldsworthy.
Publication details: Carlton, Victoria : Black Inc., 2020.Description: 230 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781863959988
- 186395998X
- Australian fiction -- 21st century
- Women -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
- Women -- Australia -- Fiction
- Women -- Australia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
- Families -- Australia -- Fiction
- Veterans -- Fiction
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Married people -- Fiction
- Families -- Fiction
- Motherhood -- Fiction
- Families
- Man-woman relationships
- Married people
- Motherhood
- Veterans
- Australiana -- Fiction
- Adelaide (S.A.) -- Fiction
- Melbourne (Vic.) -- Fiction
- Australian
- A823.4 23
- PR8290.O657 M45 2020
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | GOL | Available | 070518 |
Total reserves: 0
It is 1941. Eighteen-year-old Ruby leaves behind the family farm, her serious mother and roguish father, and heads for Adelaide. After a brief courtship, she enters into a hasty marriage with a soldier about to go to war - who returns a changed man. In this absorbing novel, Anna Goldsworthy recreates the world of Adelaide half a century ago, and portrays the phases of a woman?s life with intimacy and sly humour. We follow Ruby as she contends with her damaged husband and eccentric in-laws. We see her experience motherhood and changing social circumstances, until, in a moving twist, a figure from the past reappears, to kindle a late-life romance.
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