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Long Bay / Eleanor Limprecht.
Publication details: Collingwood, Victoria : Sleepers Publishing, 2015.Description: 313 pages ; 20 cmISBN:- 9780987507044
- Sinclair, Rebecca -- Fiction
- Long Bay Gaol -- Fiction
- Long Bay Correctional Centre -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
- Prisoners -- New South Wales -- Long Bay -- Fiction
- Women prisoners -- New South Wales -- Long Bay -- Fiction
- Biographical fiction
- Women prisoners -- New South Wales -- Long Bay -- Biography -- Fiction
- Prisons -- New South Wales -- Long Bay -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Prisoners -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Fiction
- Women prisoners -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
- Biographical fiction
- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Social conditions -- 1901-1945
- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Social conditions -- 1901-1945 -- Fiction
- Australian
- A823.4 23
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction - Historical | LIM | Available | 059797 |
Total reserves: 0
Includes bibliographical references: page 313.
Set in Sydney in the first decade of the 1900s, Long Bay is based on the true case of a young female abortionist who was convicted of manslaughter and served out her sentence in the newly opened Long Bay Womens Reformatory the first of its kind in Australia. The woman, Rebecca Sinclair, was pregnant when she went to prison. Long Bay looks at how Rebecca became involved in the burgeoning illegal abortion racket in Edwardian-era Sydney and how she was drawn into Donald Sinclairs underworld. In unadorned prose, it examines the limiting effects of poverty, the mistakes we make for love, and the bond between mother and child.
