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Olivia Wells is struggling with her university studies, her relationship with her father and her love life. Throwing herself into her thesis research, she stumbles across details of a young woman found murdered on the banks of the river in wartime Brisbane. Suddenly her studies - and her personal life - become much more interesting.
The River Girl murder leads Olivia into the world of 1940s Brisbane- a world of ration books and penny candy; of nylons and lunches at Lennon's; but also a city where tensions between Australian soldiers and the American GIs who were stationed there regularly erupted into jealousy and violence.
The deeper Olivia investigates, the more she learns about the dangers women faced back then, while also realising how little has changed. And then, of course, there's the situation with her own boyfriend to address.
Can Olivia solve the River Girl murder and get her own life back on track?
By: Melanie Myers
Imprint: Queensland Univ. Press
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 226mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 352g
ISBN: 9780702262616
ISBN 10: 0702262617
Publication Date: September 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Melanie is a writer, academic and actor with a DCA in Creative Writing from the University of the Sunshine Coast. She has been published in Kill Your Darlings, Arena Magazine, the Brisbane Times, Overland, and Hecate, and various trade publications. Melanie's short fiction has also won or been shortlisted for various literary competitions, including the Scarlett Stiletto Awards, S.D. Harvey Short Story Award, the Lane Cove Literary Award, and Griffith Review Novella competition. She is the former artistic director of Reality Bites Festival, a non-fiction writers' festival based on the Sunshine Coast.
