The Sirens Sing [electronic resource]
Kristel Thornell2022
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A beautiful novel from multi-award-winning writer Kristel Thornell, The Sirens
Sing is about the haunting force of love and desire that ricochets between
lives, across generations and through time. It is a portrait of Australian
longing.
The Blue Mountains, mid-1990s. Heather and David are two young people on the
brink of adulthood, drawn together by their study of Italian. David is smitten
with Heather, but has no idea how she feels about him. Besides Italian in
common, they are both children of struggling single mothers, who raised them in
the grungy Inner West of Sydney - share houses, a squat, a Housing Commission
flat - before moving to Blackheath. At a festive evening to celebrate Heather's
final high-school exam, events take a course that will profoundly change the
lives of everyone present.
Sydney, mid-1970s. Jan, the unconfident daughter of working-class parents and
the first in her family to go to university, strikes up a friendship with
bohemian, assured ...
Main title:
The Sirens Sing [electronic resource] / Kristel Thornell
Author:
Kristel Thornell, Author
Imprint:
Australia : 4th Estate, 2022
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (304.0 pages)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781460715253
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
427615
Electronic access:
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eBook |