A woman's work
Purman, Victoria2023
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It's 1956, and while Melbourne is in a frenzy gearing up for the Olympics, the women of Australia are cooking up a storm for their chance to win the equivalent of a year's salary in the extraordinary Australian Women's Weekly cookery contest. For two women, in particular, the prize could be life-changing. For war widow and single mum Ivy Quinn, a win would mean more time to spend with her twelve-year-old son, Raymond. Mother of five Kathleen O'Grady has no time for cooking competitions, but the prize could offer her a different kind of life for herself and her children, and the chance to control her own future. As winter turns to spring both women begin to question their lives. For Kathleen, the grinding domesticity of her work as a wife and mother no longer seems enough, while Ivy begins to realise she has the courage to make a difference for other women and tell the truth about the ghosts from her past. But is it the competition prize that would give them a new way of seeing the world - a chance to free themselves from society's expectation and change their own futures - or is it the creativity and confidence it brings?
A woman's work / Victoria Purman.
Purman, Victoria, author
First Australian paperback edition.
Sydney, NSW : HQ Fiction, 2023.©2023
344 pages ; 24 cm
"Two women, one cookery competition, a chance to change their futures..." -- Cover.Includes recipes.
97818672077889781867207788
A823.4
English
Female friendship -- FictionWidows -- FictionSingle mothers -- FictionLife change events -- FictionCooking -- FictionContests -- FictionAbortion -- FictionWomen -- Australia -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- FictionAustralia -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- FictionAustralian fictionDomestic fiction
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Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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Beaumaris Library | Adult Fiction - General | PURM | Onloan - Due: 15 Oct 2024 |
Beaumaris Library | Adult Fiction - General | PURM | Available |
Brighton Library | Adult Fiction - General | PURM | Available |
Sandringham Library | Adult Fiction - General | PURM | Onloan - Due: 15 Oct 2024 |