Our next Australian Fiction Book Club get together is on Wednesday March 27th at 6pm. The book we will be discussing is Women & Children by Tony Birch.
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Our Book Clubs are free to join. We ask participants to purchase the book from Books@Stones at a 10% discount.
It's 1965 and Joe Cluny is living in a working-class suburb with his mum, Marion, and sister, Ruby, spending his days trying to avoid trouble with the nuns at the local Catholic primary school. One evening his Aunty Oona appears on the doorstep, distressed and needing somewhere to stay. As his mum and aunty work out what to do, Joe comes to understand the secrets that the women in his family carry, including on their bodies. Yet their pleas for assistance are met with silence and complicity from all sides. Who will help Joe's family at their time of need? Women & Children is a novel about the love and courage between two sisters, and a sudden loss of childhood innocence.