Nothing but my body / Tilly Lawless.
Publication details: Crows Nest, New South Wales : Allen & Unwin, 2021.Description: 243 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781761065149
- Wildfires -- New South Wales -- South Coast -- Fiction
- Sex workers -- New South Wales -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
- Loneliness -- Fiction
- Brothels -- Fiction
- Sex workers -- Fiction
- Lesbians -- Fiction
- Infatuation -- Fiction
- Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Fiction
- Friendship -- Fiction
- Bushfires -- New South Wales -- South Coast -- Fiction
- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Fiction
- A823.4 23
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | LAW | Available | 063177 |
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Nothing But My Body is an eight-day journey through the mind of a young woman, a queer sex worker in Australia, as she navigates breakups and infatuation across just over a year. The unnamed narrator's voice is both fierce and vulnerable, defiant and tender, as she explores the interplay between her external and internal world, and the fluctuations of her emotions as love affairs intensify and wane. Her loneliness is assuaged by her beloved chosen family-her friends-and by the beauty of the natural world. Set during the cataclysmic bushfire season of 2019 and into the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown, sex work is the constant backdrop of the story as it moves between Sydney, Berlin, Orange and Bellingen.