TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wilson,Dominique
TI  - Orphan rock
SN  - 9781925760873
U1  - A823.4 23/eng/20220215
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Yarraville, VIC
PB  - Transit Lounge
KW  - Family secrets
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Women
KW  - Family relationships
KW  - Australia
KW  - World War, 1914-1918
KW  - Sex role
KW  - Mothers and daughters
KW  - Interpersonal relations
KW  - Families
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Slums
KW  - Sydney (N.S.W.)
KW  - History
KW  - Secrecy
KW  - Australian fiction
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 1851-1901
KW  - Paris (France)
KW  - 1870-1940
KW  - Australian
KW  - AUS historical fiction (Australia)
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Historical fiction
N2  - Orphan Rock is a complex and richly detailed story of secrets and heartbreak that will take you from the back streets of Sydney's slums to the wide avenues of the City of Lights. The late 1800s was a time when women were meant to know their place. But when Bessie starts to work for Louisa Lawson at The Dawn, she comes to realise there's more to a woman's place than servitude to a husband. Years later her daughter Kathleen flees to Paris to escape a secret she cannot accept. But World War One intervenes, exposing her to both the best and the worst of humanity. Masterful and epic, this book is both a splendid evocation of early Sydney, and a truly powerful story about how women and minorities fought against being silenced
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