Our shadows, Gail Jones
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Our shadows, Gail Jones
Language
eng
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Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Our shadows
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Gail Jones
Summary
This novel tells the story of three generations of family living in Kalgoorlie, where gold was discovered in 1893 by an Irish-born prospector named Paddy Hannan, whose own history weaves in and out of this beguiling novel. Sisters Nell and Frances were raised by their grandparents and were once closely bound by reading and fantasy. Now they live in Sydney and are estranged. Each in her own way struggles with the loss of their parents. Little by little the sisters grow to understand the imaginative force of the past and the legacy of their shared orphanhood. Then Frances decides to make a journey home to the goldfields to explore what lies hidden and unspoken in their lives, in the shadowy tunnels of the past
Target audience
adult
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- Family secrets -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Grandparents as parents -- Fiction
- Intergenerational relations -- Western Australia -- Kalgoorlie -- Fiction
- Orphans -- Fiction
- Families -- Western Australia -- Kalgoorlie -- Fiction
- Sisters -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
- Gold mines and mining -- West Australia -- Kalgoorlie -- Fiction
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- Classification1
- Creator1
- Genre1
- Subject9
- Family secrets -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Grandparents as parents -- Fiction
- Intergenerational relations -- Western Australia -- Kalgoorlie -- Fiction
- Orphans -- Fiction
- Families -- Western Australia -- Kalgoorlie -- Fiction
- Sisters -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
- Gold mines and mining -- West Australia -- Kalgoorlie -- Fiction
- Content1
- Author1