Roseghetto / Kirsty Jagger.
Publication details: St Lucia, Queensland : University of Queensland Press, 2023.Description: 390 pages ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780702266041
- 0702266043
- Public housing -- Fiction
- Poor -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Fiction
- Poverty -- Fiction
- Australian literature -- 21st century
- Public housing -- Australia -- Fiction
- Family violence -- Australia -- Fiction
- Urban fiction -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Fiction
- Families -- Australia -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
- Family violence -- Fiction
- Public housing -- Social aspects -- Australia -- Fiction
- Substance abuse -- Fiction
- Rosemeadow (N.S.W.) -- Fiction
- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Social conditions -- Fiction
- Australia
- A823.4 23/eng/20230628
- PR8293.A367 R67 2023
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | JAG | Available | 072664 |
An unforgettable novel about growing up in public housing in Western Sydney. Shayla is on a newspaper assignment when she returns to the public housing estate where she grew up and finds it demolished. The locals have been evicted, their homes erased, their stories too. Standing among the rubble of Rosemeadow, Shayla is assailed by her memories of living there. The bad secret Daddy asked her to keep. Mummy rekindling a dangerous romance. Making friends with 'the gutter kids'. Surrounded by poverty, confronted by domestic violence, Shayla found her escape in reading. Now it's time to tell the stories of Rosemeadow, including her own. Roseghetto is an unforgettable and moving coming-of-age story, an account of breaking the cycle of violence and poverty.