Amy's Children

by Olga Masters
Amy's Children

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Abandoned by her feckless husband during the Depression, Amy decides to leave her country town and her three infant children to try her luck in the big smoke. Life in wartime Sydney is far from easy, but for Amy there are the hard-won satisfactions of an office job and a house of her own. Until her eldest, Kathleen, appears needing a home while she attends high school. And Amy falls in love with a married man... Olga Masters' second and last novel is a triumph. At its centre is Amy, one of the great characters in Australian literature.
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Abandoned by her feckless husband during the Depression, Amy decides to leave her country town and her three infant children to try her luck in the big smoke. Life in wartime Sydney is far from easy, but for Amy there are the hard-won satisfactions of an office job and a house of her own. Until her eldest, Kathleen, appears needing a home while she attends high school. And Amy falls in love with a married man... Olga Masters' second and last novel is a triumph. At its centre is Amy, one of the great characters in Australian literature.