Orphan Rock

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Transit Lounge
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2022
Edition: First Edition

Description: 484 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Orphan Rock is a complex and richly detailed story of secrets and heartbreak that will take you from the back streets of Sydneys slums to the wide avenues of the City of Lights. The late 1800s was a time when women were meant to know their place. But when Bessie starts to work for Louisa Lawson at The Dawn, she comes to realise theres more to a womans place than servitude to a husband. Years later her daughter Kathleen flees to Paris to escape a secret she cannot accept. But World War One intervenes, exposing her to both the best and the worst of humanity. Masterful and epic, this book is both a splendid evocation of early Sydney, and a truly powerful story about how women and minorities fought against being silenced. Dominique Wilson is a wonderful storyteller. The research is impeccable, the realism unforgiving. Brian Castro, author of Blindness and Rage and Shanghai DancingHer writing is finely crafted, her prose poetic and subtle, and a joy to read. Monique Mulligan

ISBN: 9781925760873