The women's pages

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Label

The women's pages

Statement of responsibility

Victoria Purman

Title variation

womens pages

Creator

• truePurman, Victoria

Author

• truePurman, Victoria

Subject

• Australian author
• Australian fiction
• trueFamilies
• Fiction
• trueFriendship
• Journalists -- Fiction
• Labor unions -- Fiction
• trueMarried people
• truePrisoners of war
• Stevedores -- Fiction
• trueAdjustment (Psychology)
• Strikes and lockouts -- Fiction
• Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Fiction
• trueSydney, New South Wales
• War correspondents -- Fiction
• trueWomen and war
• trueWomen employees
• trueWomen journalists
• trueWomen's rights
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Peace -- Fiction
• trueStrikes
• trueAustralia

Genre

• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Sydney 1945. The war is over, the fight begins. The war is over and so are the jobs (and freedoms) of tens of thousands of Australian women. The armaments factories are making washing machines instead of bullets and war correspondent Tilly Galloway has hung up her uniform and been forced to work on the women's pages of her newspaper, the only job available to her, where she struggles to write advice on fashion and make-up. As Sydney swells with returning servicemen and the city bustles back to post-war life, Tilly finds her world is anything but normal. As she desperately waits for word of her prisoner-of-war husband, she begins to research stories about the lives of the underpaid and overworked women who live in her own city. Those whose war service has been overlooked; the freedom and independence of their war lives lost to them. Meanwhile Tilly's waterside worker father is on strike, and her best friend Mary is struggling to cope with the stranger her own husband has become since being liberated from Changi a broken man. As strikes rip the country apart and the news from abroad causes despair, matters build to a heart-rending crescendo. Tilly realises that for her the war may have ended, but the fight is just beginning

Dewey number

A823.4

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction