02899cam a2200337 4500 249235528 TxAuBib 20151230120000.0 ||||||s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781921961649 1921961643 B00T1W7TPM Amazon 6f07bbd8-ee62-4bb1-806f-6bcbb4778443 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2106257 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Jones, Rod. The Mothers [Bridges eBook]. The Text Publishing Company, 2015. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1034kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 1034kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p><i>The Mothers</i> 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.</p> <p>Rod Jones’s first novel, <i>Julia Paradise</i> (1986), won the fiction award at the 1988 Adelaide Festival, was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and was runner-up for the Prix Femina Étranger. It has been translated into ten languages and is now available as a Text Classic. His four other novels, <i>Prince of the Lilies</i>, <i>Billy Sunday</i>, <i>Nightpictures</i>, and <i>Swan Bay</i>, have all either won or been shortlisted for major literary awards. Rod Jones lives near Melbourne. <i>The Mothers</i> is his most recent novel.</p>. Historical Fiction. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-12-29 20:00:02. http://bridges.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=6f07bbd8-ee62-4bb1-806f-6bcbb4778443 https://samples.overdrive.com/mothers-6f07bb?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/mothers-6f07bb?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/mothers-6f07bb?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)