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001			15936330
003			OSt
005			20150604132700.0
008			150305s2015 vra 000 1 eng
020			_a9781922147226
020			_a1922147222
035			_a(OCoLC)ocn904680669
035			_a(OCoLC)904680669
037			_b00699916
040			_aAU@ _beng _cAU@ _erda _dOCLCO
042			_aanuc
082	0	4	_aA823.3 _223
100	1		_aJones, Rod, _d1953- _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe mothers / _cRod Jones.
300			_a334 pages ; _c24 cm
520			_aThat's what life is about, at the bottom of things, she thought: women keeping babies. In 1917, while the world is at war, Alma and her children are living in a sleep-out at the back of Mrs Lovett's house in working-class Footscray. When Alma falls pregnant, her daughter Molly is born in secret. As Molly grows up, there is a man who sometimes follows her on her way to school. Anna meets Neil in 1952 at her parents' shack at Cockatoo. She later enters a Salvation Army home for unmarried mothers, but is determined to keep her baby. Fitzroy, 1975. Student life. Things are different now, aren't they? Cathy and David are living together, determined not to get married. Against the background of the tumultuous events of the sacking of the Whitlam government, a new chapter is added to the family's story. The Mothers is a book about secrets. It interweaves the intimate lives of three generations of Australian women who learn that it's the stories we can't tell that continue to shape us and make us who we are.
650		0	_aMothers _vFiction. _97778
650		0	_aMotherhood _vFiction. _93161
650		0	_aFamily secrets _vFiction. _9155
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