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Sandy Woodward
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Fiction
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2012;2005
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HarperCollins Publishers
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English
β 381 KB
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One Hundred Days
β Scribed by Alice Pung
- Book ID
- 110628297
- Publisher
- Schwartz Books Pty. Ltd.
- Year
- 2022
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 503 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781743821817
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
One hundred days. It's no time at all, she tells me. But she's not the one waiting.
In a heady whirlwind of independence, lust and defiance, sixteen-year-old Karuna falls pregnant. Not on purpose, but not entirely by accident, either. Incensed, Karuna's mother, already over-protective, confines her to their fourteenth-storey housing-commission flat, to keep her safe from the outside world - and make sure she can't get into any more trouble.
Stuck inside for endless hours, Karuna battles her mother and herself for a sense of power in her own life, as a new life forms and grows within her. As the due date draws ever closer, the question of who will get to raise the baby - who it will call Mum - festers between them.
One Hundred Days is a fractured fairytale exploring the faultlines between love and control. At times tense and claustrophobic, it is nevertheless brimming with humour, warmth and character. It is a magnificent new work from...
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