Silence, a novel, Susan Allott
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Silence, a novel, Susan Allott
Language
eng
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no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Silence
Oclc number
1143827382
Responsibility statement
Susan Allott
Sub title
a novel
Summary
Isla Green is awakened by a call in the middle of the night: her father, Joe, phoning from Sydney. It seems that years ago, the Greens’ next-door neighbor Mandy disappeared. Joe was allegedly the last person to see her alive, and now he’s under suspicion of murder. So Isla returns to Australia for the first time in a decade to support her father and to search for the truth. Her arrival in Sydney brings up echoes from the past, taking us back to the heat of summer 1967, when two young couples lived side by side on a quiet street. The more questions Isla asks, the more she learns about the secrets each marriage bore. Could her father have done something terrible? And how much does her mother know? At the center of it all lies a shameful practice rooted in Australia’s colonial past: the forced removal of Aboriginal children from their families, children now known as the Stolen Generation.--, Adapted from jacket
Target audience
general
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