The Sirens sing, Kristel Thornell
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The Sirens sing, Kristel Thornell
Language
eng
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Literary Form
fiction
Main title
The Sirens sing
Responsibility statement
Kristel Thornell
Summary
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 Alicia. They quickly become close. But one night down by Blackwattle Bay - the night of Gough Whitlam's dismissal - things go awry
Target audience
adult
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- Desire -- Fiction
- Students -- Fiction
- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Fiction
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Blue Mountains (N.S.W.) -- Fiction
- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Australia -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Blue Mountains (N.S.W.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
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- Creator1
- Genre1
- Subject9
- Desire -- Fiction
- Students -- Fiction
- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Fiction
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Blue Mountains (N.S.W.) -- Fiction
- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Australia -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Blue Mountains (N.S.W.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
- Content1
- Author1