A Woman's Work

Victoria Purman

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01 April 2023

Fiction & Literature; Historical fiction; Australian Fiction

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 question their lives. For

Kathleen, the grinding domesticity of her work as a wife and mother no longer

seems enough, while Ivy begins to realise she has the courage to make a

difference for other women and tell the truth about the ghosts from her past.

But is it the competition prize that would give them a

new way of seeing the world -

a chance to free themselves from

society's expectation and change their own futures -

or is it the

creativity and confidence it brings?

Praise for Victoria Purman

'Heart-achingly raw yet

filled with the beauty of the human spirit, [The Nurses' War] is a triumph

that will linger in the heart and psyche.' Karen Brooks, author of The Good Wife of Bath

'A richly crafted novel ... [The Women's Pages] graphically

depicts life during those harrowing years. A

touching tale and an enthralling read.'

Reader's Digest

By: Victoria Purman
Imprint: HQ
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 441g
ISBN: 9781867207788
ISBN 10: 1867207788
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 01 April 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Victoria Purman is an Australian top ten and USA Today bestselling fiction author. Her most recent book, The Nurses' War, was an Australian bestseller, as were her novels The Women's Pages,The Land Girls and The Last of the Bonegilla Girls. Her earlier novel The Three Miss Allens was a USA Today bestseller. She is a regular guest at writers festivals, a mentor and workshop presenter and was a judge in the fiction category for the 2018 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature and the 2022 ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize for an unpublished manuscript. To find out more, visit Victoria's website, victoriapurman.com You can also follow her on Facebook or Instagram (@victoriapurmanauthor) and Twitter (@VictoriaPurman)

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A Woman's Work

Victoria Purman

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