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A Woman's Work by Victoria Purman is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is A Woman's Work about?
The astonishingly rich prize of the 1956 Australian Women's Weekly cookery competition offers two women the possibility of a new kind of future, in this compassionate look at the extraordinary lives of ordinary women - our mothers and grandmothers - in a beautifully realised post-war Australia. 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. Mother of five Kathleen O'Grady has no time for cooking competitions, but 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...
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Victoria Purman
- Publisher
- HQ Fiction AU
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781867207788
- Category
- work of fiction
- Rating
- 4.24 / 5 (79 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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