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Losing it / by Moira Burke.

By: Publication details: Melbourne, Vic. : Text Publishing Company, 2017.Description: 200 pages ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9781925498363
Subject(s): Summary: "In the 1980s, in the Melbourne suburb of Fawkner, Josie's father is drinking himself to an ugly and appalling death. Josie's mother is trying to keep the family afloat. And Josie is surviving - or not - though a reckless mix of sex, alcohol, drugs and brutalised friendships. Her story is both familiar and unique, a confronting and intimate glimpse of the inner life of an intelligent young woman longing to be loved." -- Back cover
List(s) this item appears in: Australian General Fiction | Set in Melbourne - General Fiction
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"In the 1980s, in the Melbourne suburb of Fawkner, Josie's father is drinking himself to an ugly and appalling death.
Josie's mother is trying to keep the family afloat.
And Josie is surviving - or not - though a reckless mix of sex, alcohol, drugs and brutalised friendships.
Her story is both familiar and unique, a confronting and intimate glimpse of the inner life of an intelligent young woman longing to be loved." -- Back cover

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