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Paddy O'Reilly

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Affirm Press
29 March 2022

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Australian Fiction

Lily works as a cleaner. She moves through houses in inner-city Melbourne, unseen, scrubbing away the daily residue of other people's privilege. Her partner Janks works the line in a local food factory. With every pay check they inch further away from their former world of poverty and addiction.

Lily and Janks are determined that their daughter Jewelee will have a different life. She'll have a career, not a dead-end job. She'll have savings, not debt. But precarious lives are easily upended. One wrong move throws the family into a situation in which the lines between right and wrong, hope and disappointment, are blurred.

Other Houses is a masterful and tender story about people who live from payday to payday. Acutely observed and lyrical, Paddy O'Reilly's novel paints a haunting picture of class, aspiration and the boundaries we will cross for love.

By: Paddy O'Reilly
Imprint: Affirm Press
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 208mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 29mm
Weight: 430g
ISBN: 9781922626950
ISBN 10: 1922626953
Pages: 252
Publication Date: 29 March 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Paddy O Reilly is the author of three novels, two collections of award-winning short stories, and a novella. Her novels have been shortlisted for major awards, and her stories have been widely published, anthologised and broadcast in Australia and overseas.

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Paddy O'Reilly

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