The House That Was Eureka |
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| Author:
| Wheatley, Nadia |
| Introduction by:
| Jordan, Toni |
| Series title: | Text Classics Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-922147-18-9 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2013 |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing Company
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $12.95 |
Book Description:
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It's 1981 and Evie is sixteen. She has left school but can't find work, and her family has just moved into the run-down inner Sydney suburb of Newtown. Noel lives in the adjoining terrace house. He's fifteen, not taking school seriously and fed up with looking after his ancient bed-ridden grandmother. As a friendship grows between Evie and Noel, the past is set back in motion, and the events of the 1930s Depression era begin to play out in the high-unemployment times of the early...
More DescriptionIt's 1981 and Evie is sixteen. She has left school but can't find work, and her family has just moved into the run-down inner Sydney suburb of Newtown. Noel lives in the adjoining terrace house. He's fifteen, not taking school seriously and fed up with looking after his ancient bed-ridden grandmother.
As a friendship grows between Evie and Noel, the past is set back in motion, and the events of the 1930s Depression era begin to play out in the high-unemployment times of the early 1980s, and the house again is the centre of the Sydney anti-eviction campaign of 1931.
Based on historical fact, meticulously researched, The House That Was Eureka is a critically acclaimed novel about a history we all share.