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Roseghetto / Kirsty Jagger.

By: Publication details: St Lucia, Queensland : University of Queensland Press, 2023.Description: 390 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780702266041
  • 0702266043
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • A823.4 23/eng/20230628
LOC classification:
  • PR8293.A367 R67 2023
Summary: 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.
List(s) this item appears in: Australian General Fiction
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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.

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