Hello, goodbye / Emily Brewin.
Publication details: Crows Nest, New South Wales : Allen & Unwin, 2017.Description: 334 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781925575101 (paperback)
- Young women -- Australia -- Melbourne (Australia) -- Fiction
- Nineteen sixties -- Australia -- Fiction
- Pregnant women -- Fiction
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Fiction
- Nineteen sixties -- Fiction
- Young women -- Victoria -- Melbourne -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Teenagers -- Fiction
- Melbourne (Vic.) -- Social conditions -- Fiction
- Melbourne (Australia) -- Social conditions -- Fiction
- Melbourne (Vic.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction
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Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | BRE | Available | 066620 |
"May Callaghan wasn't frightened of a challenge. But she'd never expected to face this" -- cover.
May Callaghan is seventeen years old and on her own. At least that's how it feels. Her devoutly religious mother and her gentle but damaged father are fighting, and May's boyfriend, Sam, has left their rural hometown for Melbourne without so much as a backward glance. When May lies to her parents and takes the train to visit Sam at his shared house in Carlton, her world opens wide in glorious complexity. She is introduced to his housemates, Clancy, an indigenous university student, and Ruby, a wild bohemian. With their liberal thinking and opposition to the war in Vietnam, they are everything that May's strict Catholic upbringing should warn her against. May knows too well the toll that war has taken on her father, and the peace movement in the city has a profound effect on her.