- Title:
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A Woman's Work
- Written by:
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Victoria Purman
- Read by:
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Jennifer Vuletic
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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8
- Duration:
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9 hours 11 minutes
- Published:
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April 05 2023
- Available Date:
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April 05 2023
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781460746219
- Genres:
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Fiction; Australian Fiction; General Fiction; Historical Fiction; Literary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/HarperCollins audio
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Price
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Bestselling author
Australian author
Better Reading Top 100 - 2024
The astonishingly rich prize of the 1956 Australian Women's Weekly cookery competition offers two women the possibility of a new future in this compassionate look at the extraordinary lives of ordinary women.
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. For mother of five Kathleen O'Grady, 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 offers the women a chance to free themselves from society's expectations, or is it their growing self-confidence and belief in a new kind of future?
'... graphically depicts life during those harrowing years. A touching tale and an enthralling read.' (on The Women's Pages)
Reader's Digest
'Heart-achingly raw yet filled with the beauty of the human spirit ... a triumph that will linger in the heart and psyche.' (on The Nurses' War)
Karen Brooks, author of The Good Wife of Bath