Treading Air

Title
Treading Air
Publication Date
2016-07
Author(s)
Van Luyn, Ariella
( creator )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8230-3181
Email: avanluyn@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:avanluyn
Type of document
Original Creative Works - Textual Work
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Affirm Press
Place of publication
Melbourne, Australia
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/31211
Abstract

In 1920s Queensland, Lizzie O’Dea wants to get away from her dad and the memories of her mum that haunt her. At the races she meets attractive, war-scarred Joe and sees her chance to escape. But life with Joe isn’t what she dreamt it would be.

Finding herself on the fringes of society, Lizzie discovers a new sense of independence and sexuality, love and friendship. It’s a precarious life, though, always on the edge of collapse.

Two decades later, Lizzie is sick and worn out. Lying in a Brisbane lock hospital, she thinks about Joe, who’s been lost to her for many years. But she’s a survivor. There’s hope yet.

Set between Brisbane and Townsville, and based on real events that the author uncovered from historical archives, Treading Air is the remarkably vivid tale of a young Australian working-class rebel who clashed with the expectations of her world.
Link
Citation
p. 1-284
ISBN
9781925344011
Start page
1
End page
284

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